{"id":24286,"date":"2009-01-28T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/the-pope-and-the-circus\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:04:07","slug":"the-pope-and-the-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/the-pope-and-the-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope and the Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Circus%20%26%20the%20pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"121\" alt=\"Circus &amp; the pope.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Circus%20&amp;%20the%20pope-thumb-175x121.jpg\" width=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/span>It&#8217;s not every day that the Pope meets with the circus, unless you mean meeting with a long line of clergy and laity on any given subject wanting the pope&#8217;s permission, insight or blessing. Nonetheless, it is fun to see the Holy Father having a light moment in his schedule. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cirque_Medrano\">The Medrano Circus<\/a> came to the General Audience today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/cub%20and%20a%20lion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"126\" alt=\"cub and a lion.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/cub%20and%20a%20lion-thumb-185x126.jpg\" width=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Lion%20visit%20pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"134\" alt=\"Lion visit pope.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Lion%20visit%20pope-thumb-185x134.jpg\" width=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not every day that the Pope meets with the circus, unless you mean meeting with a long line of clergy and laity on any given subject wanting the pope&#8217;s permission, insight or blessing. Nonetheless, it is fun to see the Holy Father having a light moment in his schedule. The Medrano Circus came to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/the-pope-and-the-circus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pope and the Circus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}