{"id":19724,"date":"2010-05-13T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-church_closures_spell_hard_times_for_candle_maker\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:40:15","slug":"rns-church_closures_spell_hard_times_for_candle_maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19724","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Church Closures Spell Hard Times for Candle Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of [Syracuse, New York&#8217;s]&#8230;oldest candle makers is planning to slash its work force in part because of decreased demand from a shrinking number of Catholic churches to buy its products.<\/p>\n<p>Emkay Candle told its 46 employees that as many as 38 of them will be laid off in 90 days. That would leave just eight people to make candles at the company, which has been making them at the same location since its founding in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>Rolly DeVore, Emkay\u2019s general manager, said the actual number of layoffs may wind up at less than 38, but not much less. \u201cI think maybe 15 will remain after the whole thing is done, but I don\u2019t know,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cIt all depends on what the order input is going to be in the next two months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=16058\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=16058\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of [Syracuse, New York&#8217;s]&#8230;oldest candle makers is planning to slash its work force in part because of decreased demand from a shrinking number of Catholic churches to buy its products. Emkay Candle told its 46 employees that as many<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19724\">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":[48,40,42,589,149,183,154,184,364,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724","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=19724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}