{"id":59513,"date":"2017-05-03T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59513"},"modified":"2017-05-03T06:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T10:52:51","slug":"oc-register-tec-los-angeles-diocese-denies-familys-request-to-hold-funeral-at-newport-beach-church-in-middle-of-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59513","title":{"rendered":"(OC Register) TEC Los Angeles Diocese denies family\u2019s request to hold funeral at Newport Beach church in middle of dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The daughters of a long-time member of a displaced local congregation say they are disappointed by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles\u2019 decision to reject their request to hold their mother\u2019s funeral service at their former church home.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Knight, who has been a member of St. James the Great Episcopal since 1956, died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease April 7, her daughter Ellen Knight Gordon said Monday. She was 86.<\/p>\n<p>The family told their pastor, the Rev. Cindy Voorhees, that they wanted to honor Knight\u2019s wishes by holding her service at the church, where she had served as a volunteer for about 60 years. Three weeks after they made that request, the family heard from the diocese through an email: \u201cThis is not going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2017\/05\/01\/newport-beach-church-at-center-of-dispute-denies-familys-request-for-funeral-of-60-year-congregant\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The daughters of a long-time member of a displaced local congregation say they are disappointed by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles\u2019 decision to reject their request to hold their mother\u2019s funeral service at their former church home. Nancy Knight,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59513\">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":[66,372,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59513","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=59513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59514,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59513\/revisions\/59514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}