{"id":1196,"date":"2016-04-04T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2016-04-04T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:38:51","slug":"final-mass-at-st-john-vianney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/04\/04\/final-mass-at-st-john-vianney\/","title":{"rendered":"Final mass at St. John Vianney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of southwestern Pennsylvanians \u2014 many of them tearful, others stoic \u2014 packed St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church in Allentown for one of the most-attended services there in years Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The standing-room-only Mass could mark the last formal worship at the towering landmark if the Vatican upholds a shutdown decree from Bishop David Zubik. As of 12:01 a.m. today, the debt-laden parish has closed after losing 77 percent of its registered parishioners from 2005 to 2014.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:500px;height:350px;\" data-ps-embed-type=\"slideshow\" data-ps-embed-gid=\"G0000gMjm2DEojIM\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/city\/2016\/04\/04\/St-John-Vianney-Church-closes-as-activists-pursue-appeal\/stories\/201604030264\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of southwestern Pennsylvanians \u2014 many of them tearful, others stoic \u2014 packed St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church in Allentown for one of the most-attended services there in years Sunday. The standing-room-only Mass could mark the last formal worship at the towering landmark if the Vatican upholds a shutdown decree from Bishop David Zubik.&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/04\/04\/final-mass-at-st-john-vianney\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4,15],"tags":[],"coauthors":[19],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/SS_20160403MWHchurchLocal14.jpg?fit=2600%2C1843&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}