{"id":23573,"date":"2015-11-26T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T22:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23573"},"modified":"2015-11-26T17:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T22:12:09","slug":"st-georges-windsor-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-georges-windsor-to-be-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"St. George\u2019s, Windsor to be demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Huron is demolishing St. George\u2019s in Windsor because the congregation has withered and the diocese doesn\u2019t need the building. Of course, when St. Aidan\u2019s congregation \u2013 also in Windsor &#8211; joined ANiC, the diocese took them to court because they <em><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-huron\/the-diocese-of-huron-wants-to-demolish-st-barnabas-windsor\/\" target=\"_blank\">really <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-huron\/the-diocese-of-huron-wants-to-demolish-st-barnabas-windsor\/\" target=\"_blank\">needed<\/a> the property &#8211; rather like my dog: if I pick up a stick, he <em>must<\/em> have it, only to lose interest when I drop it.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/windsorstar.com\/news\/local-news\/diocese-to-put-historic-st-georges-church-up-for-sale\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Historic\u00a0St. George\u2019s Church and Hall, facing likely\u00a0demolition, will be put up for sale in a last-ditch\u00a0effort\u00a0to save it.<\/p>\n<p>But officials at the\u00a0Anglican Church\u2019s Diocese of Huron \u2014 which owns the Walkerville property, with an asking price of $250,000 \u2014 aren\u2019t holding their breath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to proceed with demolition but because the city really would like to see if we can sell it first, we\u2019re going to test it on the market for a couple of months,\u201d Paul Rathbone, secretary-treasurer for the Diocese of Huron, said Wednesday. \u201cBut we\u2019re not going to hold it on the market long at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Huron is demolishing St. George\u2019s in Windsor because the congregation has withered and the diocese doesn\u2019t need the building. Of course, when St. Aidan\u2019s congregation \u2013 also in Windsor &#8211; joined ANiC, the diocese took them to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/st-georges-windsor-to-be-demolished\/\">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":[107],"tags":[2108,2336],"class_list":["post-23573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-huron","tag-diocese-of-huron","tag-st-georges-windsors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573","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=23573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}