{"id":1515,"date":"2005-04-26T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2005-04-26T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:50:35","slug":"pope-benedict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A faithful reader why I hadn&#8217;t blogged on the subject. After two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1463724,00.html\" title=\"op-ed\">Guardian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/wormseyeview\/story\/0,,1469915,00.html\" title=\"wormseye\">pieces<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.org\/debates\/article-5-127-2442.jsp\">one<\/a> on Opendemocracy.org, I didn&#8217;t really feel I had anything to say. But now I have read through the papers I skipped all weekend, I noticed something. Ratzinger ran a blinder of a campaign, so it was nice to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,20709-1585458,00.html\" title=\"I know, the Times, but still probably true\">a report<\/a> that, when he realised he was winning, he prayed that God would take the job away from him because he&#8217;d never wanted it; nice, I mean, in the sense that there is something deeply gratifying when a new Pope inaugurates his reign by telling a whopping lie. Proves, rather, that there is a God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A faithful reader why I hadn&#8217;t blogged on the subject. After two Guardian pieces and one on Opendemocracy.org, I didn&#8217;t really feel I had anything to say. But now I have read through the papers I skipped all weekend, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}