{"id":35855,"date":"2012-11-25T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_tennessee_a_church_fights_property_taxes_for_bookstore_cafe_on_their_pre\/"},"modified":"2012-11-25T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:00:17","slug":"in_tennessee_a_church_fights_property_taxes_for_bookstore_cafe_on_their_pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35855","title":{"rendered":"In Tennessee, a Church fights property taxes for bookstore and cafe on their premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Tennessee Court of Appeals is considering whether facilities that operate like businesses within a tax-exempted church should be subject to property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates for a Nashville church argued in the state appeals court that a gym, a bookstore and a cafe on its property \u201cfit the spiritual needs of a congregation,\u201d\u009d and shouldn\u2019t be taxed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleafchronicle.com\/viewart\/20121124\/NEWS01\/311240012\/Church-fights-property-taxes-bookstore-cafe\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Court of Appeals is considering whether facilities that operate like businesses within a tax-exempted church should be subject to property taxes. Advocates for a Nashville church argued in the state appeals court that a gym, a bookstore and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35855\">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":[48,39,40,582,589,149,114,184,151,108,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855","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=35855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}