{"id":364544,"date":"2026-10-05T03:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:13:28","slug":"raccoon-runs-into-st-josephs-church-in-greenwich-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364544\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon runs into St. Joseph&#8217;s Church in Greenwich Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A raccoon walked into a Greenwich Village church, and no, this isn&#8217;t the start of a joke. Cameras captured the animal crashing a prayer service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; A raccoon presumably looking for &#8216;prey&#8217; with an &#8216;e&#8217; wound up finding a place to &#8216;pray&#8217; with an &#8216;a.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The creature was caught on camera running inside St. Joseph&#8217;s Church in Greenwich Village. It darted past people outside on Sixth Avenue and made its way through the front doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The church was holding its Nightfire Candlelight Prayer Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The raccoon did not stick around for the full program but instead ran back outside.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A raccoon walked into a Greenwich Village church, and no, this isn&#8217;t the start of a joke. Cameras&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[135195,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-364544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-135195","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}