{"id":60932,"date":"2017-06-15T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60932"},"modified":"2017-06-15T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T22:00:58","slug":"tel-fundenhall-church-can-keep-comfortable-chairs-even-though-heritage-groups-say-they-are-cheap-and-dumpy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60932","title":{"rendered":"(Tel.) Fundenhall Church can keep comfortable chairs even though heritage groups say they are &#8216;cheap&#8217; and &#8216;dumpy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A church has won a battle to keep its new comfortable chairs despite the objections of heritage groups who say they are &#8220;cheap&#8221; and &#8220;dumpy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>St Nicholas Church in Fundenhall illegally spent \u00a33,053 on 50 &#8220;crude&#8221; chairs which are made of brown faux leather with brushed gold-coloured frames, last September. <\/p>\n<p>The church council had been allowed to remove the church&#8217;s pews as part of a much-needed refurbishment, but did not have permission to buy the chairs.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has been allowed to keep them for ten years after a church court found that it would take too long to fundraise for new ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/06\/12\/church-can-keep-comfortable-chairs-even-though-heritage-groups\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A church has won a battle to keep its new comfortable chairs despite the objections of heritage groups who say they are &#8220;cheap&#8221; and &#8220;dumpy&#8221;. St Nicholas Church in Fundenhall illegally spent \u00a33,053 on 50 &#8220;crude&#8221; chairs which are made<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60932\">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":[389,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932","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=60932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60935,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60932\/revisions\/60935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}