{"id":48727,"date":"2015-03-07T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/edmontons_mcdougall_united_church_as_an_example_of_struggling_downtown_main\/"},"modified":"2015-03-07T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T19:01:10","slug":"edmontons_mcdougall_united_church_as_an_example_of_struggling_downtown_main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48727","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton&#39;s McDougall United Church as an example of Struggling Downtown Mainline Parishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city is working on a last-ditch plan to rescue deteriorating McDougall United Church from being torn down.<\/p>\n<p>The 105-year-old building at 10025 101st St., was Edmonton\u2019s first concert hall. It boasts fine acoustics that still make it a prime music venue.<\/p>\n<p>But the small congregation hasn\u2019t had enough money for the long-term maintenance needed to keep the facility in healthy condition.<\/p>\n<p>A recent engineering report determined the church needs $18.4 million to $25.4 million in repairs during the next seven years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonjournal.com\/business\/commercial-real-estate\/McDougall+United+Church+What+Wrong\/10864408\/story.html?__lsa=7a0c-dae2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city is working on a last-ditch plan to rescue deteriorating McDougall United Church from being torn down. The 105-year-old building at 10025 101st St., was Edmonton\u2019s first concert hall. It boasts fine acoustics that still make it a prime<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48727\">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":[48,39,50,42,207,168,154,184,177,108,441,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48727","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=48727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}