{"id":13719,"date":"2013-01-23T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2013-01-23T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T23:22:46","slug":"the-pope-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/01\/the-pope-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img\" style=\"float: left; padding: 3px;\" title=\"Description\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/The-Pope-App.jpg\" \/>So the Vatican puts out a new app called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/the-pope-app\/id593468235?mt=8\">The Pope App<\/a>\u201d, specifically put out by the Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus.<\/p>\n<p>What is amazing is that it doesn\u2019t suck. In fact it is quite well done. Just from a design perspective it is clean and functional. I totally agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2013\/01\/habemus-appm-the-popes-own-app\/\">Thomas L. McDonald\u2019s review<\/a> which also includes some screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>It has the following sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live &#8211; Video streaming of some live events.<\/li>\n<li>From the Pope &#8211; Angelus, Homilies, General Audiences, etc.<\/li>\n<li>News<\/li>\n<li>Images<\/li>\n<li>Video &#8211; Archived video of Papal events<\/li>\n<li>Webcams &#8211; Yes Vatican webcams.<\/li>\n<li>Vaticano &#8211; Links to the Pope\u2019s Twitter feed along with other related links.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My only real critique is that for something called \u201cThe Pope App\u201d I would think a basic biography of the Pope would be in order and maybe something about the Papacy itself. Although this is a \u201cpreaching to the choir app\u201d, so maybe this is not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Must have for pAPPists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Vatican puts out a new app called \u201cThe Pope App\u201d, specifically put out by the Pontificium Consilium de Communicationibus Socialibus. What is amazing is that it doesn\u2019t suck.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719","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=13719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13721,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions\/13721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}