{"id":37801,"date":"2013-04-13T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_ottawa_st-_lukes_anglican_church_goes_lean_and_green\/"},"modified":"2013-04-13T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T22:19:56","slug":"in_ottawa_st-_lukes_anglican_church_goes_lean_and_green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37801","title":{"rendered":"In Ottawa, St. Luke\u2019s Anglican Church goes lean and green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Luke\u2019s parishioners are renovating their old stone and brick church to reduce energy consumption and maximize their use of the space after an energy audit discovered they were practically throwing money out the front door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wake up call more to realize that of course this is a serious issue,\u201d\u009d said the minister at St. Luke\u2019s Anglican Church, Rev. Gregor Sneddon. \u201cChurches these days, which were at one time almost the fabric of culture and society, are now struggling for their existence and how they\u2019re relevant and meaningful in a secular Western society. So the free lunch is kind of over and we\u2019re wrestling with how do we be efficient and lean in our costs and how we operate.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/life\/Luke+Anglican+Church+goes+lean+green\/8239312\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Luke\u2019s parishioners are renovating their old stone and brick church to reduce energy consumption and maximize their use of the space after an energy audit discovered they were practically throwing money out the front door. \u201cIt was a wake<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37801\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,388,74,207,140,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-energy-natural-resources","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801","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=37801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}