{"id":6672,"date":"2012-09-28T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2012-09-28T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:26:21","slug":"divine-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/divine-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 2012<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<h3>The controversy surrounding the change of use at Portland\u2019s Williston West shines a light on a growing trend.<\/h3>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>By David Svenson<\/p>\n<p>When the collection plates are empty, more and more churches find themselves transubstantiated into dress stores, posh restaurants, and arts venues. As we change form and function, are architects and entrepreneurs reconciling the reality of the past with today\u2019s <em>zeitgeist<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/Divine%20Intervention.pdf\">view this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/classic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6674\" title=\"classic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/classic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/classic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/classic-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2012<br \/>\nThe controversy surrounding the change of use at Portland\u2019s Williston West shines a light on a growing trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6826,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}