{"id":8242,"date":"2008-09-02T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T15:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cathedral_turns_to_wine_bars_to_woo_new_business\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T15:07:54","slug":"cathedral_turns_to_wine_bars_to_woo_new_business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8242","title":{"rendered":"Cathedral turns to wine bars to woo new business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first &#8220;director of hospitality and welcome&#8221; at an English cathedral has unveiled far-reaching plans to make its operations more business-like.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Hope-Urwin, a former executive with the John Lewis deparment stores chain, has been recruited by Birmingham Cathedral to oversee a radical change to its image and branding.<\/p>\n<p>His plans, revealed today, include a chain of city-centre wine bars and &#8220;loyalty cards&#8221; for regular worshippers to obtain discounts at the cathedral&#8217;s shops.<\/p>\n<p>The new appraoch to attracting and retaining worshippers could become a blueprint for dioceses across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2652359\/Cathedral-turns-to-wine-bars-to-woo-new-business.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first &#8220;director of hospitality and welcome&#8221; at an English cathedral has unveiled far-reaching plans to make its operations more business-like. Mark Hope-Urwin, a former executive with the John Lewis deparment stores chain, has been recruited by Birmingham Cathedral to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8242\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8242","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-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","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=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}