{"id":5209,"date":"2006-04-17T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T22:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/04\/17\/buying-a-cardinal-in-this-case-is-not-simony\/"},"modified":"2006-04-17T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T22:43:01","slug":"buying-a-cardinal-in-this-case-is-not-simony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/04\/buying-a-cardinal-in-this-case-is-not-simony\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a cardinal in this case is not simony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">As a devout Catholic and art lover, Greg Dougherty was outraged when he heard someone had set &#8220;Morning Spirits,&#8221; the sculpture of a cardinal situated on 4J Road, on fire at 1:30 a.m. April 10. The statue is part of the city&#8217;s Avenues of Art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&#8220;It was appalling, especially happening on the evening of Palm Sunday,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The more Dougherty thought about it, the angrier he got. So he decided to buy the cardinal and bring it back permanently to Gillette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&#8220;I thought it was a good way to get back at the Pontius Pilots of Gillette,&#8221; Dougherty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">He informed the Mayor&#8217;s Arts Council of his intent to buy the $22,000 statue on Friday. Of that, 25 percent will go back to the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">It was a good end to a week that had rocked members of the arts council when they learned of the vandalism to the statue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Dougherty, a member of St. Matthew&#8217;s Catholic Church, already has spoken to church officials about putting the cardinal permanently on church property. He hopes vandals will stay away from it and the incident was a one-time deal, he said.<br \/>\n<span class=\"bi\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gillettenewsrecord.com\/articles\/2006\/04\/17\/news\/news02.txt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" width=\"76\" height=\"26\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a devout Catholic and art lover, Greg Dougherty was outraged when he heard someone had set &#8220;Morning Spirits,&#8221; the sculpture of a cardinal situated on 4J Road, on fire&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","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=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}