{"id":22339,"date":"2010-10-13T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_canada_emptier_churches_at_risk\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:00:36","slug":"in_canada_emptier_churches_at_risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22339","title":{"rendered":"In Canada Emptier churches at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edna Mitchell has sat in the same pew at St. Matthias Anglican Church every Sunday for the past 85 years, first with her parents and now next to the people she thinks of as her &#8220;church family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the place where she has sung carols at Christmas, celebrated Easter each spring and taught children the stories of the Bible for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s my home,&#8221; she said&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But the majestic brick building on Chebucto Road in Halifax may be sold once the congregation joins the parish of St. Philip\u2019s, as the number of parishioners steadily declines&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/Metro\/1206672.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edna Mitchell has sat in the same pew at St. Matthias Anglican Church every Sunday for the past 85 years, first with her parents and now next to the people she thinks of as her &#8220;church family.&#8221; It\u2019s the place<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22339\">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":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339","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=22339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}