{"id":31212,"date":"2012-03-06T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/saratoga_springs_new_york_bread_and_butter_parish_priest_thomas_parke_rip\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:15:18","slug":"saratoga_springs_new_york_bread_and_butter_parish_priest_thomas_parke_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31212","title":{"rendered":"(Saratoga Springs, New York) Bread and Butter Parish Priest, Thomas Parke, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Thomas Parke, 72, the spiritual leader of the Bethesda Episcopal Church on Washington Street for 44 years, died Monday after a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Saratoga community, Bethesda Church and the Diocese of Albany have lost a faithful priest and a wonderful man,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Marshall Vang, who has been serving as the church\u2019s rector since Parke\u2019s retirement eight weeks ago. He was also friends with Parke for many years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saratogian.com\/articles\/2012\/03\/06\/news\/doc4f553d9f5f291728474131.txt?viewmode=fullstory\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Thomas Parke, 72, the spiritual leader of the Bethesda Episcopal Church on Washington Street for 44 years, died Monday after a battle with cancer. \u201cThe Saratoga community, Bethesda Church and the Diocese of Albany have lost a faithful<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31212\">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":[36,48,438,66,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31212","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=31212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}