{"id":52704,"date":"2015-12-24T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_church_with_ties_to_famed_christmas_poem_is_in_need_of_repair\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:42:19","slug":"nyt_church_with_ties_to_famed_christmas_poem_is_in_need_of_repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52704","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Church With Ties to Famed Christmas Poem Is in Need of Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was stirring were not creatures.<\/p>\n<p>It was worse. Much worse. The soft patting sounds that the Rev. Stephen Harding and I heard inside St. Peter\u2019s Church Chelsea \u201d\u201d the \u201cChristmas Church\u201d\u009d that owes its existence to Clement Clarke Moore \u201d\u201d came from rainwater. It percolated through the tin-and-timber roof and the lath-and-plaster Gothic ceiling vaults, dripping down to the balcony floor.<\/p>\n<p>St. Peter\u2019s needs a lot of help, about $15 million worth, Father Harding estimates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/24\/nyregion\/church-with-ties-to-famed-christmas-poem-is-in-need-of-repair.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was stirring were not creatures. It was worse. Much worse. The soft patting sounds that the Rev. Stephen Harding and I heard inside St. Peter\u2019s Church Chelsea \u201d\u201d the \u201cChristmas Church\u201d\u009d that owes its existence to Clement Clarke Moore<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52704\">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":[36,48,39,66,133,184,113,108,441,380,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-parish-ministry","category-poetry-literature","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-parishes","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52704","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=52704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}