{"id":52156,"date":"2015-10-19T16:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dwindling_membership_forces_eastern_oregon_episcopal_churchs_closure\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T16:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T16:01:36","slug":"dwindling_membership_forces_eastern_oregon_episcopal_churchs_closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52156","title":{"rendered":"Dwindling membership forces Eastern Oregon Episcopal Church\u2019s closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a century of&#8230;[Episcopal]  worship in Nyssa is coming to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Dwindling membership has led St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church to seek permission to close. After several months spent looking for options, the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon has consented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so few of them,\u201d\u009d the Rt. Rev. Bavi Edna \u201cNedi\u201d\u009d Rivera said. \u201cSeveral of the members are older and some of them have moved away to places where they can get \u201d\u00a6 care or be near family.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.argusobserver.com\/news\/dwindling-membership-forces-church-s-closure\/article_ec928ee4-7551-11e5-8fad-9f62a787a71b.html#.ViQOQEon9uI.twitter\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a century of&#8230;[Episcopal] worship in Nyssa is coming to a close. Dwindling membership has led St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church to seek permission to close. After several months spent looking for options, the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52156\">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":[36,48,66,184,375,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-data","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52156","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=52156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}