{"id":546,"date":"2012-12-02T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=546"},"modified":"2012-12-02T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:19:44","slug":"churches-renting-steeples-to-cell-phone-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2012\/12\/02\/churches-renting-steeples-to-cell-phone-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches renting steeples to cell phone companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CBS San Francisco&#8217;s reporting that because many people find cell phone towers aesthetically displeasing, communication companies are increasingly using church steeples to camouflage those unslightly eyesores.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChurch steeples make an excellent location for a cell site,\u201d said John Britton of AT&amp;T. \u201cYou have nice location on it. It\u2019s giving good connectivity and people don\u2019t even see it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For their part, churches can earn a tidy sum in the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Canyon Creek Presbyterian in San Ramon, the pastor said they make upwards of $30,000 a year for putting the site in his steeple, and many others are doing the same thing. They lose part of their tax exemption, but still make money on the deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; lose part of their tax exemption. I&#8217;d be interested in seeing how that would play out. Great vid and more info at the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2012\/11\/27\/churches-increasingly-rent-out-steeples-as-cellphone-towers\/\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; CBS San Francisco&#8217;s reporting that because many people find cell phone towers aesthetically displeasing, communication companies are increasingly using&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}