{"id":43736,"date":"2014-04-23T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faith_not_just_frescoes_drawing_millions_to_cathedrals_says_heritage_chief_\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:30:04","slug":"faith_not_just_frescoes_drawing_millions_to_cathedrals_says_heritage_chief_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43736","title":{"rendered":"Faith, not just frescoes, drawing millions to cathedrals, says heritage chief Simon Thurley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The lure of Christian worship as much as the attraction of history and architecture is driving a boom in visits to cathedrals, according to the guardian of England\u2019s national heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said it was clear that cathedrals are bucking a national trend towards declining church attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Official figures from the Church of England show that the 42 Anglican cathedrals in England alone attracted around 12 million visitors last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10778254\/Faith-not-just-frescoes-drawing-millions-to-cathedrals-says-heritage-chief.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lure of Christian worship as much as the attraction of history and architecture is driving a boom in visits to cathedrals, according to the guardian of England\u2019s national heritage. Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said it was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43736\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736","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=43736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}