{"id":39566,"date":"2013-08-15T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/after_125_years_bethlehem_lutheran_church_in_milwaukee_holds_its_last_servi\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:15:52","slug":"after_125_years_bethlehem_lutheran_church_in_milwaukee_holds_its_last_servi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39566","title":{"rendered":"(Journal-Sentinel) After 125 years, Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Milwaukee holds its last service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Engel knelt at the Communion rail at Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Sunday, tears welling in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>At 85, she&#8217;d built a lifetime of memories in this sacred space. She was confirmed here. She attended its grade school. Every Christmas, every Easter was celebrated in these pews.<\/p>\n<p>And on Sunday, for the last time, Engel knelt to receive the Holy Eucharist here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s heartbreaking,&#8221; said Engel, who gathered with hundreds of current and former members for final services at Bethlehem, which closed its doors Sunday after 125 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/after-125-years-bethlehem-lutheran-church-holds-last-service-b9973720z1-219202231.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Engel knelt at the Communion rail at Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Sunday, tears welling in her eyes. At 85, she&#8217;d built a lifetime of memories in this sacred space. She was confirmed here. She attended its grade school. Every<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39566\">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":[48,39,42,363,154,184,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566","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=39566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}