{"id":25336,"date":"2026-08-19T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2026-11-10T06:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:54:46","slug":"ephrata-cloister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25336","title":{"rendered":"Ephrata Cloister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25338\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25338\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Bake House, Women&#039;s Meetinghouse, and Residence, Ephrata Cloister\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260819_032463-65.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bake House, Women&#8217;s Meetinghouse, and Residence, Ephrata Cloister<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post, we drove up to York, Pennsylvania for a few days, to get away, briefly, from funeral preparations. We decided to go see the Ephrata Cloister in Ephrata, getting there just in time to join a tour. While I generally find tours a little slow for my taste, it&#8217;s the only way to get into the two largest buildings, so I was glad to do it, this time. These are the bake house and kitchen on the left with the women&#8217;s meetinghouse and residence building behind it to the right, as seen from the cemetery at the northeast edge of the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in yesterday&#8217;s post, we drove up to York, Pennsylvania for a few days, to get away, briefly, from funeral preparations. We decided to go see the Ephrata Cloister in Ephrata, getting there just in time to join a tour. While I generally find tours a little slow for my taste, it&#8217;s the only &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[3900,3899,645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25340,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/25340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}