{"id":31005,"date":"2021-04-16T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/only-in-new-zealand-relics-found-in-coffee-jars-in-rubble-of-christchurch-cathedral"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:09:16","slug":"only-in-new-zealand-relics-found-in-coffee-jars-in-rubble-of-christchurch-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31005","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only in New Zealand!\u2019: Relics found in coffee jars in rubble of Christchurch cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relics \u2013 purported to be bones of saints \u2013 were found buried in rubble of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes <\/p>\n<p>It might seem like an inauspicious end for a saint, being laid to rest in a Greggs coffee jar.<\/p>\n<p>But for the holy relics buried beneath Christchurch\u2019s destroyed Catholic cathedral, those repurposed containers have housed them safely through more than 40 years and two enormous earthquakes, until they were finally unearthed by demolition teams this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/only-in-new-zealand-relics-found-in-coffee-jars-in-rubble-of-christchurch-cathedral\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relics \u2013 purported to be bones of saints \u2013 were found buried in rubble of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes It might seem like an inauspicious end for a saint, being laid to rest in a Greggs coffee jar.But for the holy relics buried beneath Christchurc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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-31005","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\/31005","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31006,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions\/31006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}