{"id":4247,"date":"2012-06-01T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:49:30","slug":"coventry-cathedral-gets-share-of-american-express-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4247","title":{"rendered":"Coventry Cathedral gets share of American Express $1m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Following the inclusion of the ruins of St Michael\u2019s Coventry on the 2012 World Monument Fund (WMF) Watch List, a \u00a32m fundraising campaign was launched late in 2011 to save them, and now American Express, longstanding supporter of the WMF Watch List, has offered Coventry a share of a $1m donation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A proportion of Coventry&#8217;s grant will ensure that the urgent conservation of the nationally important medieval glass rescued from St Michael\u2019s can begin this summer.<\/p>\n<p>A further \u00a3250,000 still needs to be raised to undertake the urgent repairs to stabilise the ruins, prior to plans to showcase the conserved medieval glass and restore the medieval crypts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Find out more at<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/wmf-info.org.uk\/15C5-T1L0-5V4SKD-B9B8I-1\/c.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the inclusion of the ruins of St Michael\u2019s Coventry on the 2012 World Monument Fund (WMF) Watch List, a \u00a32m fundraising campaign was launched late in 2011 to save them, and now American Express, longstanding supporter of the WMF &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=4247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4248,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/4248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}