{"id":5656,"date":"2005-09-29T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/09\/29\/bless-me-father-for-i-am-about-to-sin\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T13:13:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T18:13:21","slug":"bless-me-father-for-i-am-about-to-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/09\/bless-me-father-for-i-am-about-to-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless me father for I am about to sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">A Catholic priest was robbed at gunpoint in his home by a man who had asked to be blessed, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The 69-year-old priest saw the man at the window of his home at St Oswald&#8217;s Church in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The man said he wanted to be blessed, but after the priest led him into the church, his accomplice burst in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The pair threatened the priest with a gun before stealing a large amount of money from his adjoining presbytery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Det Sgt Bill Nelson, from Greater Manchester Police, said the robbery was &quot;despicable&quot;. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/manchester\/4293168.stm\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It does make me wonder if the robber asked on the way out &quot;So a blessing now would be out of the question?&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic priest was robbed at gunpoint in his home by a man who had asked to be blessed, police have said. The 69-year-old priest saw the man at the&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-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","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=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}