{"id":3291,"date":"2007-09-10T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/09\/10\/par-for-the-course\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T14:40:38","slug":"par-for-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/09\/par-for-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Par for the course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald <a href=\"http:\/\/closedcafeteria.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/liars.html\" target=\"_blank\">reporting from Austria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">A lot of media reports say that there weren&#8217;t many people welcoming the pope &#8211; BBC said there weren&#8217;t throngs along the streets. Of course there hadn&#8217;t been any plans or possibilities for such throngs and the streets were blocked by police, even the highway was lined by police. Every venue had a set number of tickets to give out, and all the venues were packed, despite the truly horrible weather. One could barely pass through the masses. BBC also wrote that only a few came to Mariazell on their own and somewhat snidely remarked that Church buses had brought in people. Yeah BECAUSE IT WAS CLOSED TO PRIVATE TRAFFIC ! One could only get in by train or bus. So yeah, the BBC is full of crap &#8211; and you can add all kinds of other news outlets. Either they don&#8217;t do their homework or they are deliberately lying. People stood in rain, cold and wind for hours, the venues were all jam packed. And if anyone tells you about the anti-pope demonstrators &#8211; six boomers with banners, and two banners affixed to houses, that was it. The one &#8216;we are church&#8217; banner said &quot;peace and hope, sorrow and fear&quot;. Oh yeah and there was some weird woman handing out flyers saying Christians don&#8217;t need a church &#8211; and ironically trying to recruit people for the &quot;Free Christians&quot; community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald reporting from Austria. A lot of media reports say that there weren&#8217;t many people welcoming the pope &#8211; BBC said there weren&#8217;t throngs along the streets. Of course there&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-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","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=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}