{"id":3946,"date":"2007-04-28T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/04\/28\/baseball-player-or-pope\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T19:25:28","slug":"baseball-player-or-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/04\/baseball-player-or-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball player or Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">James Higgins, 7, has been attending daily Mass since he was 3. His parents, Stephen and Lauren, never have to drag him out of bed or away from playthings, either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&#8220;I have it in my heart to go,&#8221; said James, decked out in a blue sweat suit, a Red Sox jacket and cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">He said he&#8217;s undecided between a career with the Red Sox or as the first American pope. But given this boy&#8217;s encyclopedic knowledge of the church, the safe money is on the Vatican job. <\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/uniontrib\/20070428\/news_1c28whiz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing<\/a> via  <a href=\"http:\/\/monkallover.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/boy-of-seven-years-is-catholic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Father Stephanos, O.S.B.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Higgins, 7, has been attending daily Mass since he was 3. His parents, Stephen and Lauren, never have to drag him out of bed or away from playthings, either.&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-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}