{"id":41679,"date":"2013-12-22T03:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/corey_brooks_camped_on_a_rooftop_to_boost_his_chicago_neighborhood\/"},"modified":"2013-12-22T03:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:55:31","slug":"corey_brooks_camped_on_a_rooftop_to_boost_his_chicago_neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41679","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Corey Brooks camped on a rooftop for nearly 3 months to boost his Chicago neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago in winter is not known for being a great place to camp out, much less on top of a building, much less on a former bordello.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Corey Brooks spent nearly three months in arguably one of the worst campsites ever: the roof of the Super Motel. Even so, he found inspiration in his rooftop tent.<\/p>\n<p>The run-down motor hotel across the street from his church had long served as a hub of drug dealing and prostitution. To shut it down, Pastor Brooks and his parishioners protested every Friday and Saturday night for a year and a half.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Making-a-difference\/2013\/1220\/Corey-Brooks-camped-on-a-rooftop-to-boost-his-Chicago-neighborhood\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago in winter is not known for being a great place to camp out, much less on top of a building, much less on a former bordello. Pastor Corey Brooks spent nearly three months in arguably one of the worst<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41679\">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":[48,39,162,168,435,184,108,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-christology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679","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=41679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}