{"id":23859,"date":"2011-01-06T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/second_anglican_church_in_southwestern_ontario_to_close\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:00:51","slug":"second_anglican_church_in_southwestern_ontario_to_close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23859","title":{"rendered":"Second Anglican church in Southwestern Ontario to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dwindling attendance will result in the closure of a second Anglican church in Sarnia in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>The century-old St. John&#8217;s Church on Devine Street will close it doors Feb. 1, following hard on the decision to shutter St. James The Apostle Church on Lansdowne Avenue last year.<\/p>\n<p>Archdeacon Richard Salts said it was a tough call, but in the end the members of each congregation voted in favour of amalgamation with other area Anglican churches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with most mainline churches there has been a certain amount of decrease in numbers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The critical mass is not always there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theobserver.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2917557\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwindling attendance will result in the closure of a second Anglican church in Sarnia in less than a year. The century-old St. John&#8217;s Church on Devine Street will close it doors Feb. 1, following hard on the decision to shutter<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23859\">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-23859","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\/23859","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=23859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}