{"id":2535,"date":"2008-08-30T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/08\/30\/gift-from-on-high\/"},"modified":"2008-08-30T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T16:37:03","slug":"gift-from-on-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/08\/gift-from-on-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift from on &quot;high&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\"> Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): A catholic priest, who claims that his back yard full of cannabis plants is a gift from God, has been placed under constant surveillance by police.<\/p>\n<p>Father Cyril Papudov, of Petrich, Bulgaria, has been arrested seven times but police have never caught him actually cultivating the crop.<\/p>\n<p>He insists that the cannabis seeded by itself and is part of God&#8217;s gift of nature and nothing to do with him.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There has been a great deal of suspicion over the years about what is going on with these plants,&quot; Daily Telegraph quoted police, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He is a man of the cloth and so a lot of people don&#8217;t want to think badly of him but frankly if someone has a huge crop of cannabis in their back garden it&#8217;s highly unlikely they are just sitting there admiring its horticultural properties,&quot; the police added. \n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newslocale.org\/world\/wnews\/catholic_priest_claims_cannabis_field_in_backyard_%27a_gift_from_god%27!_200808303822.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px solid ; width: 76px; height: 26px;\" alt=\"Article\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): A catholic priest, who claims that his back yard full of cannabis plants is a gift from God, has been placed under constant surveillance by police.&hellip;<\/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-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}