{"id":50311,"date":"2015-06-15T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/historic_sandstone_episcopal_church_in_clydebank_scotland_falling_into_ruin\/"},"modified":"2015-06-15T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:00:56","slug":"historic_sandstone_episcopal_church_in_clydebank_scotland_falling_into_ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50311","title":{"rendered":"Historic sandstone Episcopal Church in Clydebank, Scotland, falling into ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congregations vacated St Columba\u2019s Episcopal Church on Glasgow Road in 1996 \u201d\u201d and since, it has been slowly crumbling away.<\/p>\n<p>But after a photo of the church was posted on social media there have been calls for action to be taken to stop the rot at the town church.<\/p>\n<p>Clydebank photographer Owen McGuigan, who ignited a debate about the church after uploading the snap to Facebook, said: \u201cI just don\u2019t like seeing old buildings, especially churches, which, back in the day were substantially built to last a long time, being left to fall down with neglect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last 40 years in Clydebank we have lost several churches, all knocked down before their time, some to make way for the Clyde Shopping Centre.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clydebankpost.co.uk\/news\/roundup\/articles\/2015\/06\/15\/536338-historic-clydebank-sandstone-church-falling-into-ruin\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congregations vacated St Columba\u2019s Episcopal Church on Glasgow Road in 1996 \u201d\u201d and since, it has been slowly crumbling away. But after a photo of the church was posted on social media there have been calls for action to be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50311\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,74,149,199,600,184,108,326,398,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-scottish-episcopal-church","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50311","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=50311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}