{"id":19378,"date":"2010-04-25T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/watertown_connecticuts_former_episcopal_chapels_sale_forces_removal_of_buri\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T22:59:28","slug":"watertown_connecticuts_former_episcopal_chapels_sale_forces_removal_of_buri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19378","title":{"rendered":"Watertown Connecticut&#39;s former Episcopal chapel&#39;s sale forces removal of burial urns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death is eternal, but burial is not.<\/p>\n<p>That is what relatives of 46 former worshippers of Christ Church on the Green are learning after a decision by the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut to remove cremated remains from a memorial garden on the church grounds. The historic chapel was put up for sale last year after half its membership broke away in late 2007 over the national church&#8217;s stance on homosexuality and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have a situation here, where, by virtue of a sale, the diocese will no longer be responsible for the land, its use, or any care of anything in it,&#8221; said the Rev. Stanley Kemmerer, priest-in-charge. &#8220;It&#8217;s really an effort to be pastoral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rep-am.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/25\/news\/local\/478815.txt\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is eternal, but burial is not. That is what relatives of 46 former worshippers of Christ Church on the Green are learning after a decision by the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut to remove cremated remains from a memorial garden<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19378\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,438,66,184,376,647,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}