{"id":3096,"date":"2008-02-01T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/02\/01\/soda-pope\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:35:26","slug":"soda-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/02\/soda-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Soda Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">Winston Churchill made no secret of his<br \/>\nlove of brandy and cigars; Margaret Thatcher was bereft without her<br \/>\nhandbag, and Pope Benedict XVI, I can reveal, has Fanta.<\/p>\n<p>When the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, visited the Vatican this<br \/>\nweek, he gave the Holy See a case of Holy Grail beer, brewed in North<br \/>\nYorkshire. The Pope, however, opted instead for the orange stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t normally drink,&#8221; Catholic priest Fr Tim Finigan tells Spy.<br \/>\n&#8220;He prefers Fanta. I&#8217;m not really sure why, perhaps because it was<br \/>\noriginally created in Germany.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what does Fanta make of its most famous customer?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very flattered,&#8221; says a spokesman for Coca-Cola, which produces<br \/>\nthe fizzy drink.<\/p>\n<p>So might the Pope be fronting its next campaign? &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; he<br \/>\nadds. &#8220;He&#8217;s not quite right for our target audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well the Pope is right for all target<br \/>\naudiences, but I don&#8217;t think we<br \/>\nwant to see him with Fantanas saying &#8220;Don&#8217;t You Wanta Fanta? &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Fr. Finigan who was quoted maintains <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">an excellent blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston Churchill made no secret of his love of brandy and cigars; Margaret Thatcher was bereft without her handbag, and Pope Benedict XVI, I can reveal, has Fanta. When the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}