{"id":92380,"date":"2020-05-04T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92380"},"modified":"2020-05-04T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:58:28","slug":"dw-germans-go-back-to-worship-but-no-singing-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92380","title":{"rendered":"(DW) Germans go back to worship&#8211;but no singing allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many German churches reopened on Sunday morning after most remained closed for more than a month in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Worshippers will have to wear masks, respect social distancing, and no singing will be allowed amid fears that it spreads the virus more easily.<\/p>\n<p>Cologne Cathedral, Europe&#8217;s largest church and Germany&#8217;s most visited landmark, has planned a special ceremony for friends of the church. Workers, choir members, lay readers and altar boys were invited to a ceremony of only 122 people in the enormous medieval cathedral which normally received 20,000 visitors a day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/coronavirus-germans-go-back-to-church-but-no-singing-allowed\/a-53316113\">Read it all.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">German churches like those in Cologne are reopening under strict new rules: no singing is allowed, a maximum of 122 people can attend Mass, people must sit 1.5 meters apart, and no well-wishing is allowed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rt9xdUU4gi\">https:\/\/t.co\/rt9xdUU4gi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Plaid Germany (@Plaid_Germany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Plaid_Germany\/status\/1257332905090650113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2020<\/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>Many German churches reopened on Sunday morning after most remained closed for more than a month in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus. Worshippers will have to wear masks, respect social distancing, and no singing will be allowed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=92380\">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":[478,104,183,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-health-medicine","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92380","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=92380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92383,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92380\/revisions\/92383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}