{"id":28755,"date":"2021-02-22T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/healing-the-heart-of-the-city-the-battle-to-restore-christchurchs-cathedral"},"modified":"2021-02-22T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:30:06","slug":"healing-the-heart-of-the-city-the-battle-to-restore-christchurchs-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28755","title":{"rendered":"Healing the heart of the city: the battle to restore Christchurch&#8217;s cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While new buildings have sprung up around it, the ruined cathedral has long been a painful reminder of the earthquake <\/p>\n<p>In the months, then years, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/feb\/22\/christchurch-earthquake-65-dead-100-trapped\">Christchurch earthquake<\/a>, it was not Sue Spigel\u2019s mind that needed healing, but her spirit.<\/p>\n<p>What worked was her home high on the hillside above Governors Bay, where Spigel, 74, and her husband, Bob, have lived for 20 years. \u201cIt was this place \u2026 being here, cocooned from the rest of the agony that was going on, that really helped,\u201d she says, sat with her back to a large window framing bush, sky and sea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/healing-the-heart-of-the-city-the-battle-to-restore-christchurchs-cathedral\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While new buildings have sprung up around it, the ruined cathedral has long been a painful reminder of the earthquake In the months, then years, after the Christchurch earthquake, it was not Sue Spigel\u2019s mind that needed healing, but her spirit.What wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28758,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28755\/revisions\/28758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}