{"id":12166,"date":"2012-02-22T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12166"},"modified":"2012-02-22T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:59:24","slug":"smudgegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/02\/smudgegate\/","title":{"rendered":"Smudgegate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a certified hypercritical Catholic pundit I want to gen up a controversy as an enforcer of blogosphere orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/smudgegate2.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12169\" title=\"smudgegate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/smudgegate2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/smudgegate2.png 500w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/smudgegate2-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are pictures of two Catholic candidates at the Arizona GOP debate on Ash Wednesday and shockingly &#8211; no ashes on their presidential wannabe foreheads. I dub this &#8220;Smudgegate&#8221; So what if there is no requirement to keep your ashes on all day, much less receive them. So what if this is inconsequential. I demand that Catholic politicians give some signs of their faith in public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pelosi-Ash.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12170\" title=\"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Ash Wenesday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pelosi-Ash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pelosi-Ash.jpg 282w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pelosi-Ash-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kerry-ash.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12171\" title=\"John Kerry Ash Wednesday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kerry-ash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kerry-ash.jpg 474w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kerry-ash-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/biden-ash.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12174\" title=\"biden-ash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/biden-ash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/biden-ash.jpg 370w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/biden-ash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On second thought I guess I am happy when Catholic politician don&#8217;t show their faith in this manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a certified hypercritical Catholic pundit I want to gen up a controversy as an enforcer of blogosphere orthodoxy. Here are pictures of two Catholic candidates at the Arizona GOP&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12175,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions\/12175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}