{"id":14400,"date":"2013-08-29T21:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14400"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:24:27","slug":"more-of-a-groupie-than-a-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/08\/more-of-a-groupie-than-a-selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"More of a groupie than a selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pope-groupie.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14401\" alt=\"pope-groupie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pope-groupie.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pope-groupie.jpg 614w, http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pope-groupie-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t get why the media and some Catholics are calling this a &#8220;selfie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Dictionaries Online&#8217;s quarterly update defined selfie as &#8220;a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is more of a &#8220;groupie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is bad enough that we have terms like this and then don&#8217;t even use them correctly.<\/p>\n<p>The media though always like pictures that they think are somewhat ironic when it comes to the Pope, bishops, priests, and those in religious life. Show them doing something &#8220;normal&#8221; and somehow it is news.<\/p>\n<p>Still I like the picture itself which no doubt is much better than the one taken on that cell phone at arms length.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I just don&#8217;t get why the media and some Catholics are calling this a &#8220;selfie.&#8221; Oxford Dictionaries Online&#8217;s quarterly update defined selfie as &#8220;a photograph that one has taken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14400","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=14400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14402,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14400\/revisions\/14402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}