{"id":274,"date":"2013-08-26T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T22:55:03","slug":"after-215-years-member-of-st-johns-church-to-be-buried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"After 215 years, member of St. John\u2019s Church to be buried"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5215\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/prayers-for-fortune.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Amy D. Welin, top\/second from left, Rector of St. John&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Waterbury, Connecticut, leads a prayer, as she and other clergy lay their hands on the casket at a funeral service for an 18th-century slave called Fortune during a burial service on Thursday, September 12, 2013. (Cloe Poisson\/Hartford Courant\/MCT via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rev. Amy Welin started as the newly called priest-in-charge of St. John\u2019s, Waterbury, in September 2012. A few months after that, Amy recalled in a phone interview, she received a call from the recently retired director of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Marie Galbraith, asking Amy if she would be willing to bury a man named \u201cFortune\u201d who had died in 1798.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Amy Welin started as the newly called priest-in-charge of St. John\u2019s, Waterbury, in September 2012. A few months after that, Amy recalled in a phone interview, she received a call from the recently retired director of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Marie Galbraith, asking Amy if she would be willing to bury a man named \u201cFortune\u201d who had died in 1798.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/episcopaldigitalnetwork.com\/ens\/2013\/08\/26\/connecticut-after-215-years-member-of-st-johns-church-to-be-buried\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the full story from the Episcopal News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106,320,104,105],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-episcopal","tag-mr-fortune","tag-st-johns","tag-waterbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13262,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/13262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsonthegreen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}