{"id":42443,"date":"2014-02-05T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/alltechs_irish_distillery_goes_gothic_with_restoration_of_anglican_church\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:01:00","slug":"alltechs_irish_distillery_goes_gothic_with_restoration_of_anglican_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42443","title":{"rendered":"Alltech&#39;s Irish distillery goes Gothic with restoration of Anglican church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deirdre Lyons, Pearse&#8217;s wife and director of Alltech&#8217;s corporate image, is spearheading plans to renovate the building, which is surrounded by 300,000 graves, including that of Pearse Lyons&#8217; grandfather, John Hubert Lyons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m working with a historic preservation architect and a team to restore it to its former glory,&#8221; Deirdre Lyons said. The building hasn&#8217;t been a church in decades and most recently was a lighting store, so it is in pretty sad shape, she said. Half the steeple and the stained glass windows are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Alltech paid about $900,000 for the building, plus about $45,000 to the Church of Ireland to release the site from covenants that would have prevented the sale or use of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/2014\/02\/03\/3066440\/alltechs-irish-distillery-goes.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deirdre Lyons, Pearse&#8217;s wife and director of Alltech&#8217;s corporate image, is spearheading plans to renovate the building, which is surrounded by 300,000 graves, including that of Pearse Lyons&#8217; grandfather, John Hubert Lyons. &#8220;I&#8217;m working with a historic preservation architect and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42443\">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":[36,39,40,50,90,74,409,589,149,199,600,325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-alcoholdrinking","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443","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=42443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}