{"id":7629,"date":"2003-08-27T17:12:43","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T22:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/08\/27\/a-leap-of-faith-from-the-mediterranean-to-oregon\/"},"modified":"2003-08-27T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T22:12:43","slug":"a-leap-of-faith-from-the-mediterranean-to-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/08\/a-leap-of-faith-from-the-mediterranean-to-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"A leap of faith &#8212; from the Mediterranean to Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here is an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemountaineagle.info\/main.asp?FromHome=1&#038;TypeID=1&#038;ArticleID=3129&#038;SectionID=1&#038;SubSectionID=12\">Father Cassar<\/a> a priest who left his native Malta for mission work in Oregon. This article also contains this interesting tidbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Father Cassar mentioned the &#8220;Maltese Falcon&#8221; classic movie that starred Humphrey Bogart, which has only a slight hint of the &#8220;real&#8221; Maltese Falcon story in the prelude. When the Knights of Malta purchased the island from Spain they did pay 300 pieces of gold and, as a token, thereafter sent Spain one falcon per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">That sounds just like the relationship the United States shares with other countries.  We help them out and the they give us the bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an article about Father Cassar a priest who left his native Malta for mission work in Oregon. This article also contains this interesting tidbit. Father Cassar mentioned 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629","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=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}