{"id":2395,"date":"2013-01-27T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jett.in\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:02:59","slug":"instawalk-old-swedes-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2013\/01\/instawalk-old-swedes-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Instawalk: Old Swedes Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i decided last night i wanted to visit Delaware, having been to pretty much every other state surrounding Philadelphia. there really isn&#8217;t much in Wilmington, but this historic church is definitely worth a visit if you&#8217;re passing through. (the only other thing i did in Wilmington was loiter around the Amtrak station so i could see an Acela train firsthand for the first time &#8212; sufficiently impressed, at least from the outside. imho it doesn&#8217;t count as high-speed rail.)<\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldswedes.org\/sites\/\">Old Swedes Church<\/a> is &#8220;the oldest church in the United States standing as originally built and still in use as a house of worship&#8221;, dating from the end of the 17th century. fast forward to the 21st century and it&#8217;s not in the best of neighborhoods, but still, it&#8217;s great to see extant architecture from that time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8419342617\/\" title=\"The oldest church in the US still in orig location and used as house of worship. by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8083\/8419342617_931225202d_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"The oldest church in the US still in orig location and used as house of worship.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8420451856\/\" title=\"upload by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8228\/8420451856_bea77e619b_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"upload\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8420465916\/\" title=\"The graffiti on these doors date back up to 300 years. by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8331\/8420465916_0b68ca970f_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"The graffiti on these doors date back up to 300 years.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8420478350\/\" title=\"Stained glass by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8325\/8420478350_dfe9677537_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"Stained glass\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8419370967\/\" title=\"Fallen rose by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8183\/8419370967_06f68cc278_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"Fallen rose\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/8420486086\/\" title=\"Mother by jon|k, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8225\/8420486086_ed7413d38e_z.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" alt=\"Mother\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i decided last night i wanted to visit Delaware, having been to pretty much every other state surrounding Philadelphia. there really isn&#8217;t much in Wilmington,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Instawalk: Old Swedes Church","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[240,1135,531,796],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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