{"id":3664,"date":"2009-08-19T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2009-08-19T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:51:23","slug":"buffalo-rising-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2009\/08\/buffalo-rising-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Rising: Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rlesq67gviE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Most are aware of Buffalo\u2019s great treasure of religious architecture. Unfortunately, few have a real appreciation for the significant cultural value as these great edifices begin to disappear year by year.<\/p>\n<p>These amazing palaces of worship are increasingly in danger as the population of local parishes ages and declines.\u00a0There seems to be little civic urgency as churches close, interior treasures are sold off, and the buildings are left to rot. Perhaps\u00a0WNY takes this amazing collection of art and craft for granted because it has seemed so commonplace in Buffalo. Now, more than ever, the people of WNY need to sit up and take notice as this fragile gift from our ancestors becomes more and more rare.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing collection of angels shown in this slideshow are all from just one Church,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/corpuschristibuffalo.org\/site\/\">Corpus Christi Church<\/a>,\u00a0at 199 Clark Street on the city\u2019s East Side. Recently the Church was adopted by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Order_of_Saint_Paul_the_First_Hermit\">Pauline Fathers<\/a>,\u00a0making it safe from closure for the foreseeable future. \u00a0I stumbled on this wonderful collection of pictures, and knew I had to do a BRO story about it.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorising.com\/2009\/08\/angels-1.html#post-comments\" target=\"_blank\">read full story on Buffalo Rising<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most are aware of Buffalo\u2019s great treasure of religious architecture. Unfortunately, few have a real appreciation for the significant cultural value as these great edifices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,1,7],"tags":[292,32,1133],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alive-multimedia","category-news","category-alive-churches","tag-buffalo-rising","tag-corpus-christi-buffalo","tag-corpus-christi-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-X6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}