{"id":25664,"date":"2011-04-16T19:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/urgent_help_is_needed_to_save_thousands_of_crumbling_british_churches\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:00:24","slug":"urgent_help_is_needed_to_save_thousands_of_crumbling_british_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25664","title":{"rendered":"(London Times) Urgent help is needed to save thousands of crumbling British churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most comprehensive survey of Britain\u2019s churches ever carried out has shown a \u201ccritical\u201d\u009d number in desperate need of financial help.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 4,000 of the nation\u2019s 47,000 churches \u201d\u201d 8 per cent \u201d\u201d are in poor or very poor condition, needing an average of \u00c2\u00a380,000 spending each for repairs and restoration.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, to be published on Monday, has found that 1.6 million people take part in voluntary activities involving the Church, averaging out at 33 per church. The biggest area was community activities, followed by faith activities and then administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article2988481.ece\">Read it all (requires subscription)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most comprehensive survey of Britain\u2019s churches ever carried out has shown a \u201ccritical\u201d\u009d number in desperate need of financial help. Nearly 4,000 of the nation\u2019s 47,000 churches \u201d\u201d 8 per cent \u201d\u201d are in poor or very poor condition,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25664\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25664","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-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664","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=25664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}