{"id":6521,"date":"2008-06-05T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/8_foot_jesus_statue_missing_from_detroits_church_of_the_messiah\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T19:52:00","slug":"8_foot_jesus_statue_missing_from_detroits_church_of_the_messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6521","title":{"rendered":"8-foot Jesus statue missing from Detroit&#39;s Church of the Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone stole Jesus Christ. From the cross.<\/p>\n<p>The 8-foot-statue of Jesus had been on the cross on the side the Church of the Messiah on Detroit\u2019s east side \u201cfor as long as anyone can remember,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Barry Randolph.<\/p>\n<p>The weather-beaten statue was made of plaster, and has a green patina the thief or thieves may have mistaken for copper.<\/p>\n<p>A parishioner called church staff Tuesday morning and told them Jesus Christ was gone. It may have been taken late Monday or early Tuesday from the 107-year-old Episcopal church at 231 E. Grand Blvd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080604\/NEWS05\/80604084\">Read it all and join me in praying for the statue&#8217;s safe return&#8211;any city needs a statue like that, but surely Detroit does given all they are going through in that city right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone stole Jesus Christ. From the cross. The 8-foot-statue of Jesus had been on the cross on the side the Church of the Messiah on Detroit\u2019s east side \u201cfor as long as anyone can remember,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Barry Randolph.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6521\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","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-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","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=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}