{"id":85429,"date":"2019-10-11T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85429"},"modified":"2019-10-11T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:49:55","slug":"bbc-church-of-scotland-considers-selling-half-aberdeens-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85429","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Church of Scotland considers selling half Aberdeen&#8217;s churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of Aberdeen&#8217;s churches are being considered for sale as part of a &#8220;once in a generation&#8221; review.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year plan recommends 15 buildings for disposal, with 15 being retained and the future of a further three under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of Scotland report said it aimed &#8220;to reshape the church estate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Scott Rennie, planning convener for the Presbytery, said there were &#8220;many more&#8221; church buildings than needed and that &#8220;difficult choices&#8221; lay ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-49985067\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;We will have to make some difficult choices&#8221;: Church of Scotland considers selling almost half Aberdeen&#8217;s churches <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ETU1VuJW5j\">https:\/\/t.co\/ETU1VuJW5j<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchscotland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchscotland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC North East Scot (@BBCNorthEast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNorthEast\/status\/1181867634603761664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of Aberdeen&#8217;s churches are being considered for sale as part of a &#8220;once in a generation&#8221; review. The 10-year plan recommends 15 buildings for disposal, with 15 being retained and the future of a further three under consideration.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=85429\">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":[444,186,600,417,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-england-uk","category-church-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85429","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=85429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85432,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85429\/revisions\/85432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}