{"id":5774,"date":"2005-11-06T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/11\/06\/armed-ushers\/"},"modified":"2005-11-06T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T18:49:29","slug":"armed-ushers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/11\/armed-ushers\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed ushers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">BRIDGEPORT &#8212; For months, parishioners of Holy Trinity Church prayed they were beating the odds. They held potluck suppers. They hosted bazaars and tag sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">In short, they raised lots of money &#8212; enough, they hoped, to keep their struggling Black Rock parish alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">But worshipers at what is believed to be the oldest Hungarian Byzantine parish on the East Coast said they were devastated by the announcement last Sunday that the church was closing. But what happened next, they said, was unconscionable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Moments after the announcement was made, armed guards emerged from the sacristies to escort worshipers from their spiritual home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">When she saw the guards, &quot;I felt like I was in a Communist country,&quot; said JoAnn Manzo, one of the startled parishioners. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.connpost.com\/news\/ci_3185955\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">How in the world can you think that this would be a good idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIDGEPORT &#8212; For months, parishioners of Holy Trinity Church prayed they were beating the odds. They held potluck suppers. They hosted bazaars and tag sales. In short, they raised lots&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}