{"id":13874,"date":"2013-03-02T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2013-03-02T13:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:28:52","slug":"the-disappearance-of-the-pipe-organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/03\/the-disappearance-of-the-pipe-organ\/","title":{"rendered":"The disappearance of the pipe organ"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Officials at a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh have a holy mystery on their hands. They say someone, somehow stole the building\u2019s organ \u2014 and the 200 massive pipes required to play it.<br \/>\nWPXI-TV reported Friday that the music equipment worth $200,000 has disappeared from St. Justin\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n<p>Church business manager Skip Hary (HAW\u2019-ree) says he\u2019s baffled how anyone could get the organ out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>He says it would either have to be maneuvered down narrow flights of steps, or lowered over a balcony. And the pipes can only be accessed by a ladder into the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>St. Justin\u2019s, in the city\u2019s Mount Washington neighborhood, closed last month after merging with another church.<br \/>\nPolice say there were no signs of forced entry. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/news\/article\/Organ-pipes-stolen-from-Pittsburgh-church-4321898.php#ixzz2MPME9hvM\">(source)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well this time the dissappearance of the organ is an actually mystery. In most parishes the organ wilfully disappeared. Really in most parishes if someone stole the organ nobody would notice since it was never used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Officials at a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh have a holy mystery on their hands. They say someone, somehow stole the building\u2019s organ \u2014 and the 200&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}