{"id":27863,"date":"2011-08-24T03:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T03:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_national_cathedral_damaged_by_quake\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T03:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T03:30:33","slug":"washington_national_cathedral_damaged_by_quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27863","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Washington National Cathedral Damaged by Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The central tower on the Washington National Cathedral\u201d\u201dthe highest point in Washington, D.C.\u201d\u201dsuffered serious damage from the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the East Coast Tuesday. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake knocked off the cross-shaped finial stones on three of the four pinnacles that jut out from the top of the tower. The top of one pinnacle is leaning inward. Yellow police tape was roped across trees in front of the Cathedral and a steady trickle of gawkers stared up at the damaged 300-foot tower.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first I thought it felt something like a big wind,&#8221; Samuel Lloyd, dean of the cathedral, said in an interview. &#8220;Then I realized that nothing was blowing, but there was a rattling and a shaking everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111903327904576526922053659268.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central tower on the Washington National Cathedral\u201d\u201dthe highest point in Washington, D.C.\u201d\u201dsuffered serious damage from the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the East Coast Tuesday. No one was injured. The earthquake knocked off the cross-shaped finial stones on three of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27863\">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":[36,66,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863","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=27863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}