{"id":7083,"date":"2004-01-30T22:45:30","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T03:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/01\/30\/brazil-robbers-make-priest-victim-swear-on-bible\/"},"modified":"2004-01-30T22:45:30","modified_gmt":"2004-01-31T03:45:30","slug":"brazil-robbers-make-priest-victim-swear-on-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/01\/brazil-robbers-make-priest-victim-swear-on-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil robbers make priest victim swear on Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) &#8211; The Bible is mightier than the gun, at least for a group of Brazilian robbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Unsure if their weapons had caused enough fear, robbers who broke into a monastery made a priest swear on the Bible that he had handed over all the money, police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The 15 hooded men who stole some $6,200 from a secluded Catholic monastery near the town of Guaratingueta in Sao Paulo state were apologetic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;They were asking the priests to forgive them during the robbery, saying they were only doing it because they needed the money,&#8221; said police investigator Flavio Andre Averaldo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;And before leaving they made one priest swear on the Holy Bible that there was nothing left.&#8221;<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/locales\/newsArticle.jsp?type=entertainmentNews&#038;locale=en_IN&#038;storyID=4252157\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) &#8211; The Bible is mightier than the gun, at least for a group of Brazilian robbers. Unsure if their weapons had caused enough fear, robbers&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-7083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083","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=7083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}