{"id":29845,"date":"2011-12-13T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/grace_episcopal_church_in_new_orleans_to_close_though_perhaps_it_is_not_per\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:00:52","slug":"grace_episcopal_church_in_new_orleans_to_close_though_perhaps_it_is_not_per","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29845","title":{"rendered":"Grace Episcopal Church in New Orleans to Close, Though Perhaps it is not Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Episcopal Church, a fixture on Canal Street in Mid-City for nearly 60 years, will close next month, Episcopal Bishop Morris Thompson said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana hopes the closure is not permanent. It may be able to reopen the church in a year or so after rethinking its mission and gathering new resources, Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said he informed Grace\u2019s small congregation of his decision Dec. 4. He said there were fewer 15 people in the pews at one of the two services that morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/religion\/index.ssf\/2011\/12\/grace_episcopal_church_on_cana.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Episcopal Church, a fixture on Canal Street in Mid-City for nearly 60 years, will close next month, Episcopal Bishop Morris Thompson said Monday. The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana hopes the closure is not permanent. It may be able to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29845\">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":[36,48,39,66,131,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-hurricane-katrina","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845","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=29845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}