{"id":3327,"date":"2007-09-24T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/09\/24\/pope-benedict-donates-shoes-for-the-poor\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:58:35","slug":"pope-benedict-donates-shoes-for-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/09\/pope-benedict-donates-shoes-for-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict donates shoes for the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \ufffd Some homeless Minneapolis residents are walking in the pope’s shoes.<\/p>\n

That’s after two big boxes from Rome arrived at Sharing and Caring Hands, a homeless mission in downtown Minneapolis. Recently, the Rev. Joseph Johnson, the rector of the Cathedral of St. Paul gave some friends from the Vatican a tour of the facility while they were visiting the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

Sharing and Caring Hands has an on-site shoe room, but director Mary Jo Copeland didn’t know what was in the big boxes when they arrived.<\/p>\n

“Father (Johnson) says, ‘That’s from the Pope.’ I said, What do you mean? The Pope,” said Copeland.<\/p>\n

She opened them to find several dozen pairs of handmade Italian shoes to give to the poor.<\/p>\n

“These are just grand! This is just the best gift. That Pope Benedict, wherever you are, God bless you!” said Copeland.<\/p>\n

Johnson said Benedict got the shoes from an Italian shoemaker who asked that they be distributed to the poor.
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \ufffd Some homeless Minneapolis residents are walking in the pope’s shoes. That’s after two big boxes from Rome arrived at Sharing and Caring Hands, a homeless mission in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","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=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}