{"id":3101,"date":"2012-11-18T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2012-11-18T20:04:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:04:55","slug":"3101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"Tilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/crosstil.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>It looks like Jesus himself has taken a shot to the ribs by Mother Nature. <\/p>\n<p>This is the Iglesia Pentecostal Church, the former Dutch Reformed Church in Belleville NJ, which took some damage from Hurricane Sandy in late October.  Interestingly, the original church on this site was built in 1697 and its <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/mem\/archive-free\/pdf?_r=1&#038;res=9C03EFDE1E30E333A25752C1A96E9C94649ED7CF\" target=\"_blank\">tower was used<\/a> as an observation post in the American Revolutionary War.  The church is located very near the west bank of the Passaic River; the Brits were holding the east side, so the patriot forces used the tower to keep an eye on them.  Also, the church is not a stranger to bad weather.  In 1804 a tornado almost destroyed the original church, and in 1854 the present church, which we see here, was constructed.  Only to get hit by more raging winds 158 years later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Jesus himself has taken a shot to the ribs by Mother Nature. This is the Iglesia Pentecostal Church, the former Dutch Reformed Church in Belleville NJ, which took some damage from Hurricane Sandy in late October. Interestingly, the original church on this site was built in 1697 and its tower was used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}