{"id":10649,"date":"2011-07-22T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T02:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=10649"},"modified":"2011-07-22T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T03:08:44","slug":"congratulations-st-john%e2%80%99s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/22\/congratulations-st-john%e2%80%99s\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, St. John\u2019s!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. John\u2019s Abbey Church was featured by Minnesota Public Radio in its \u201cCelebrating Minnesota Architecture\u201d series today.<\/p>\n<p>The church, which will turn fifty this fall, was designed by architect Marcel Breuer.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hudson, editor of Architecture Minnesota Magazine, who nominated St. John\u2019s, also submitted an impressive photograph (you can see it with the story). He observed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This image by photographer Paul Crosby captures both the breathtaking volume of the interior and how that monumentality somehow becomes intimate with the rich texture and patterns of the board-formed concrete. I could sit in this church for days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, how many of you could truthfully say that you would want to sit in your own church for days, hmm?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the whole thing\u2014including the photo\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/state-of-the-arts\/archive\/2011\/07\/minnesota-architecture-st-johns-abbey-church.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, St. John\u2019s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. John\u2019s Abbey Church was featured by Minnesota Public Radio in its \u201cCelebrating Minnesota Architecture\u201d series today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[1473,1474,287],"class_list":["post-10649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-art-and-architecture","tag-marcel-breuer","tag-mpr","tag-saint-johns-abbey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations, St. John\u2019s! 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