{"id":13951,"date":"2011-08-23T15:53:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13951"},"modified":"2011-08-23T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:53:41","slug":"new-zealand-christchurch-cathedral-to-be-built-out-of-cardboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-zealand-christchurch-cathedral-to-be-built-out-of-cardboard\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Christchurch Cathedral to be built out of cardboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/australiaandthepacific\/newzealand\/8715479\/New-Christchurch-cathedral-to-be-built-out-of-cardboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original 1864 cathedral was badly damaged in a major earthquake on February 22, with the bell tower completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>A second quake, in June, caused further damage, shattering stained glass panels.<\/p>\n<p>The city has yet to decide on a long-term replacement for the landmark and has commissioned architect Shigeru Ban to create a structure that will be ready by the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and last until the Anglican cathedral can be restored to its original condition.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based Mr Ban has earned a reputation for his use of cardboard \u2013 because it is recyclable and surprisingly strong \u2013 for large buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It isn\u2019t often such an apt metaphor presents itself: a cardboard cathedral for a denomination with a cardboard faith which will soon have to fill its pews with cardboard cut-out people to maintain the illusion that someone is still interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The original 1864 cathedral was badly damaged in a major earthquake on February 22, with the bell tower completely destroyed. A second quake, in June, caused further damage, shattering stained glass panels. The city has yet to decide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/new-zealand-christchurch-cathedral-to-be-built-out-of-cardboard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[593],"class_list":["post-13951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","tag-christchurch-cathedral-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}