{"id":23133,"date":"2010-11-27T03:04:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T03:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/st-_pauls_episcopal_church_in_brockton_massachusetts_holds_its_final_servic\/"},"modified":"2010-11-27T03:04:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T03:04:47","slug":"st-_pauls_episcopal_church_in_brockton_massachusetts_holds_its_final_servic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23133","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church in  Brockton, Massachusetts, holds its final services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like six others before it in the last eight years, a grand Brockton church built by immigrants and shoe industrialists in the city\u2019s heyday will close Sunday, its expenses too high and its buildings too difficult to maintain for its shrinking congregation.<\/p>\n<p>The closing of St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church follows those of several other once-prominent area churches, including the 156-year-old Elmwood New Church in East Bridgewater, which faces demolition because of its decrepit condition.<\/p>\n<p>In Brockton, the recent closings began in 2002 with Our Lady of Ostrobrama; most recently, St. Casimir Church, a 110-year-old Lithuanian parish, shut down in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/11\/25\/brockton_episcopal_church_will_close_after_sunday\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like six others before it in the last eight years, a grand Brockton church built by immigrants and shoe industrialists in the city\u2019s heyday will close Sunday, its expenses too high and its buildings too difficult to maintain for its<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23133\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133","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=23133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}