{"id":24266,"date":"2016-07-27T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24266"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:55:04","slug":"diocese-of-montreal-needs-8-million-to-repair-its-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-montreal-needs-8-million-to-repair-its-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Montreal needs $8 million to repair its cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese is launching into a fundraising campaign with all the energy that a church less preoccupied with the temporal might devote to the saving of souls. No matter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/articles\/montreal-cathedral-appeals-for-help-to-repair-spire-meet-other-needs\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is the interesting part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cathedral had no spire from then until 1940, when a new one of aluminum panels mounted on a steel structure replicated the previous stone spire. That structure lasted through 1987-88, when the whole cathedral was, for a time, on a concrete slab supported by piles during construction of a shopping mall underneath the cathedral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The foundations of the cathedral are resting on an altar dedicated to the\u00a0 consumer god of a decaying civilisation: a shopping mall. \u00a0A perfect metaphor for the Diocese and, indeed, the entire Western Anglican edifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese is launching into a fundraising campaign with all the energy that a church less preoccupied with the temporal might devote to the saving of souls. No matter, this is the interesting part: The cathedral had no spire from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-montreal-needs-8-million-to-repair-its-cathedral\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[589,2378],"class_list":["post-24266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-montreal","tag-christ-church-cathedral","tag-dean-paul-kennington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266","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=24266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}