{"id":6183,"date":"2005-04-03T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/04\/03\/the-first-funky-pontiff\/"},"modified":"2005-04-03T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T17:01:43","slug":"the-first-funky-pontiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/04\/the-first-funky-pontiff\/","title":{"rendered":"The first funky pontiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">Dublin &#8211; Pope John Paul II was the &quot;best front man&quot; the Roman Catholic Church ever had, U2&#8217;s own front man Bono said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The men, both named as nominees for this year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize, campaigned together to end world debt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The lead singer of the Irish rock band once famously gave the Pope his trademark wraparound sunglasses to put on during a meeting, dubbing him &quot;the first funky Pontiff&quot;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;A great show man, a great communicator of ideas even if you didn&#8217;t agree with all of them, a great friend to the world&#8217;s poor which is how I got to meet him,&quot; Bono said in a statement. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=3&#038;art_id=qw1112527981444B211\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin &#8211; Pope John Paul II was the &quot;best front man&quot; the Roman Catholic Church ever had, U2&#8217;s own front man Bono said on Sunday. The men, both named as&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-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","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=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}