{"id":4411,"date":"2022-12-25T23:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T23:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2022-12-25T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T23:09:55","slug":"saint-johns-abbey-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/12\/saint-johns-abbey-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint John&rsquo;s Abbey Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><em>Religion significantly expanded its place in American life during the midcentury era. Between 1946 and 1955, an estimated <strong>30 million Americans<\/strong> joined churches. By 1958 nearly two-thirds of all Americans belonged to a religious organization, compared to just 40 percent before Word War II.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25362806-minnesota-modern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book on Minnesota\u2019s mid century architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That is so wild. It is incredible how religion prospers when new tech emerges. In my mind it shouldn\u2019t because science is about facts, questioning and moving forward, the opposite of religion\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p>It is also wild that in the same time period, the opposite happened in Europe: Faith has been going down ever since the start of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>It highlights the two sides of those world wars: Americans, \u201cbelieving\u201d that they can fight \u201cevil\u201d and win. On the other side Europeans understanding and tasting pragmatism and the fact that most countries, infrastructures, people, have been utterly decimated. There\u2019s no belief here, just pain, resentment and reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/8de291b37c90dc185aca724c0b9e8698.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile mid-century, church-ey America let something like this happen. I love it. It\u2019s insane. It\u2019s bold. The honeycomb fa\u00e7ade is fabulous. It looks amazing inside, a mix of star destroyer and cave environment.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just in awe about things symmetrically opposed like religion and modernism, which are sometimes going hand in hand and produce unreal things. Like this impeccable, powerful structure. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d personally convert it to a library\/skatepark, but that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion significantly expanded its place in American life during the midcentury era. Between 1946 and 1955, an estimated 30 million Americans joined churches. By 1958 nearly two-thirds of all Americans belonged to a religious organization, compared to just 40 percent before Word War II. From a book on Minnesota\u2019s mid century architecture. That is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}