{"id":28113,"date":"2011-09-07T18:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_faith_community_helps_steady_national_cathedral_after_quake\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T18:08:03","slug":"npr_faith_community_helps_steady_national_cathedral_after_quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28113","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Faith Community Helps Steady National Cathedral After Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in the nave of the Cathedral, Alonso, the head stonemason, watches as crews begin attaching the nets to the 100-foot vaulted ceiling. He jingles the chips in his hand \u201d\u201d the same hands that 20 years ago helped put the final touches on the gothic-style cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s heartbreaking to me, because I know what went into building this building. When I look at a piece of stone, I can tell you what that stone went through, from [when] it was designed by the architect, sculpted, carved [and] laid in place by the stonemason,&#8221; Alonso says. &#8220;This is a handmade building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the Episcopal cathedral began in 1907, after Congress granted a charter, and it took 83 years to finish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/07\/140211424\/faith-community-helps-steady-cathedral-after-quake\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in the nave of the Cathedral, Alonso, the head stonemason, watches as crews begin attaching the nets to the 100-foot vaulted ceiling. He jingles the chips in his hand \u201d\u201d the same hands that 20 years ago helped put<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28113\">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":[36,49,66,190,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-general-interest","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113","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=28113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}