{"id":15430,"date":"2016-03-26T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=15430"},"modified":"2016-03-26T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:03:58","slug":"the-rolling-stones-defy-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2016\/03\/the-rolling-stones-defy-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rolling Stones defy the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I noticed this series of headlines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/pope-tries-stop-rolling-stones-7631651\">Pope tries to stop Rolling Stones from playing in Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/showbiz\/7028673\/Pope-Francis-tried-to-ban-the-Rolling-Stones-from-playing-historic-gig-in-Cuba.html\">Pope Francis tried to ban the Rolling Stones from playing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2016\/03\/26\/rolling-stones-defy-the-pope-by-playing-historic-gig-to-500000-fans-in-cuba-on-good-friday-5777080\/\">The Rolling Stones defy the Pope by playing historic gig to 500,000 fans in Cuba on Good Friday<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/entertainment\/music\/music-news\/rock-legends-rolling-stones-defy-7633149\">Rock legends Rolling Stones defy the Pope and play free Cuba concert on Good Friday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically the same basic story appeared in British news sources:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An insider on the tour added: \u201cThe band\u2019s team were flabbergasted when the Vatican got in touch via letter and couldn\u2019t believe their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as they didn\u2019t want to upset the Pope, they had a contract in place to play on the Friday \u2013 and in their mind they were going to honour it. They have made a promise to the Cuban people and won\u2019t let them down.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My spidey-senses are tingling and my first instinct is to call BS on this story (my second and third instincts as well). First off the story is being shaped as \u201cPope bans\u201d, when at most it might have been someone in the Vatican. Even that seems rather fishy. Where is this letter they received? Seems to me that if The Rolling Stones management ever actually received such a letter it they would make the most of it by posting it online. It makes great publicity.<\/p>\n<p>I really don\u2019t think the Vatican is going to get involved in rock band tour dates.<\/p>\n<p>Although I remember when the Vatican\u2019s semi-official newspaper L\u2019 Osservatore Romano decided to get into music journalism and released a list of the top ten rock and pop albums of all time.<\/p>\n<p>At the time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/02\/the-new-l\u2019-osservatore-romano\/\">I envisioned their new direction<\/a> which thankfully didn\u2019t bear out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/RollingStoneVaticanNewspaper.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I noticed this series of headlines: Pope tries to stop Rolling Stones from playing in Cuba Pope Francis tried to ban the Rolling Stones from playing The Rolling Stones&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430","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=15430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15431,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430\/revisions\/15431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}