{"id":410,"date":"2013-04-01T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T10:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2013-04-04T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:22:13","slug":"the-new-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/the-new-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparent that I was going forward on full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, friends and family would volley questions my way as if I&#8217;ve become an expert in theology. What about purgatory, salvation through grace, the Immaculate Conception?<\/p>\n<p>Last week, just before my confirmation, my mother tossed out a softer question: what did I think about the new Pope, Francis? After a little thought I provided the following answer:<\/p>\n<p>Hey Mom,<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know a lot about Pope Francis but I can definitely tell you that he is way better than the guy who used to be pope&#8230;me. Popes may be elected, may be martyred, may be canonized and may even resign. But my pope was fired. He is no longer pope. Thank God.<\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparent that I was going forward on full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, friends and family would volley questions my way as if I&#8217;ve become an expert in theology. What about purgatory, salvation through grace, the Immaculate Conception? Last week, just before my confirmation, my mother tossed out a softer question: what did I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomactslug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}