{"id":53516,"date":"2016-02-29T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_telegram_100000_to_tear_down_church_by_the_sea\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:30:12","slug":"the_telegram_100000_to_tear_down_church_by_the_sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53516","title":{"rendered":"(The Telegram) $100,000 to tear down church by the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing left of the St. Philip\u2019s Anglican church built in 1894 is a $100,000 bill for its demolition.<\/p>\n<p>The structure, perhaps known best as the church by the sea, was demolished in 2015 after a long and public battle that pitted the Portugal Cove-St. Philip\u2019s town council and even the Anglican diocese against a determined group of people who wanted the place of worship saved. Church by the Sea Inc. is a registered charity, and trying to save the church from demolition largely became its cross to bear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you consider the fact that we were willing and able to accept responsibility for the cost of maintaining the old church, it wouldn\u2019t have cost them anything and yet they\u2019ve spent $100,000 to tear it down,\u201d\u009d says Steve Sharpe, president of Church by the Sea Inc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/section\/2016-02-26\/article-4449353\/$100,000-to-tear-down-church-by-the-sea\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing left of the St. Philip\u2019s Anglican church built in 1894 is a $100,000 bill for its demolition. The structure, perhaps known best as the church by the sea, was demolished in 2015 after a long and public<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53516\">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":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,184,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53516","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=53516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}