{"id":40969,"date":"2013-11-09T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/orlando_sentinel_mormon_church-owned_company_buys_huge_swath_of_florida_lan\/"},"modified":"2013-11-09T23:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:00:45","slug":"orlando_sentinel_mormon_church-owned_company_buys_huge_swath_of_florida_lan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40969","title":{"rendered":"(Orlando Sentinel) Mormon church-owned company buys huge swath of Florida land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mormon church stands to own nearly 2 percent of Florida by completing a deal to buy most of the real estate of the St. Joe Co. for more than a half-billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The megapurchase was announced jointly Thursday by a corporate representative of church, which owns the nearly 295,000-acre Deseret Ranches in Central Florida, and by the real-estate and timber business, which has built several communities along the Panhandle coast.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, a church entity, AgReserves Inc., will buy 382,834 acres \u201d\u201c the majority of St. Joe&#8217;s timberlands \u201d\u201c in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and Wakulla counties for $565 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/os-mormon-deseret-huge-land-deal-20131107,0,697936.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mormon church stands to own nearly 2 percent of Florida by completing a deal to buy most of the real estate of the St. Joe Co. for more than a half-billion dollars. The megapurchase was announced jointly Thursday by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40969\">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":[39,40,42,589,149,600,428,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-mormons","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40969","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=40969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}