{"id":7734,"date":"2003-09-27T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-27T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/27\/letters-to-the-pope\/"},"modified":"2003-09-27T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-27T16:55:11","slug":"letters-to-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/letters-to-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">During his silver anniversary celebration in Rome next month, Pope John Paul II will receive a collection of 10,000 letters and drawings from U.S. Catholic school students. The messages ask how to cope with such traumas as the loss of a pet or a divorce, and pose other questions only children can &#8212; or will &#8212; ask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Kelley, 9, wants to know if John Paul, elected Oct. 16, 1978, had to audition for the job. Jamie, 13, is concerned about the pope&#8217;s social life: &#8220;Do you ever just hang out with your friends like going to the movies, bowling or bingo?&#8221; Amy, 10, gets philosophical: &#8220;If God made us in his own image, then why didn&#8217;t He make us perfect?&#8221; And Dylan asks: &#8220;Since you are in Italy, how come the Popemobile isn&#8217;t a Ferrari or a Lamborghini?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Those and other jewels appear in &#8220;Dear Papa: Children Celebrate Pope John Paul II With Letters of Love and Affection,&#8221; one of several books commemorating the pope&#8217;s 25-year reign.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/life\/faithvalues\/story\/7508109p-8422875c.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his silver anniversary celebration in Rome next month, Pope John Paul II will receive a collection of 10,000 letters and drawings from U.S. Catholic school students. The messages ask&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-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","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=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}