{"id":22476,"date":"2010-10-21T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_northern_california_st-_johns_episcopal_minister_quits_church\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:00:30","slug":"in_northern_california_st-_johns_episcopal_minister_quits_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22476","title":{"rendered":"In Northern California, St. John&#39;s Episcopal Minister quits church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. John&#8217;s, the fourth oldest Episcopal Church in the state, was established in 1853. For most of its history, the church thrived&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Henry] Delamere said St. John&#8217;s predicament is a product of several factors, including a split four years ago in the wake of a church-wide split.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, costs of maintaining the facility continue to increase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a combination of other factors,&#8221; [Jan] Caselli said. &#8220;Megachurches are growing in leaps and bounds, and we have an aging congregation that&#8217;s not drawing in young families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appeal-democrat.com\/news\/church-100280-john-delamere.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John&#8217;s, the fourth oldest Episcopal Church in the state, was established in 1853. For most of its history, the church thrived&#8230;. [Henry] Delamere said St. John&#8217;s predicament is a product of several factors, including a split four years ago<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22476\">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":[36,48,66,435,184,376,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476","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=22476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}