{"id":7566,"date":"2004-01-26T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/01\/26\/papal-bear\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T18:05:14","slug":"papal-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/01\/papal-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Papal Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/popebear.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I found this picture in a Google archive while looking for some graphics for another post.  This was made by a company that called it the Pope John Paul II Bear, though it no longer seems to be made.   My demented brain brought to mind a couple of phrases that are used as a known unquestioned truth to express the truth in another statement.  The phrases &#8220;Is the Pope Catholic?&#8221; and &#8220;Does a Bear s*** in the woods?&#8221; can now finally brought together as one phrase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Now of course the Pope John Paul II Bear should come in different breeds depending on who buys it.  For those people who can&#8217;t bear the Pope:  For liberals it would be a Grizzly bear, for the Radical Traditionalist it would be a Koran-kissing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care-bears.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Care-Bear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Relatedly, I found the following quiz.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quizilla.com\/L\/londonbelow\/1038911044_edneckbear.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Redneck Bear\"><br \/>Redneck Bear<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quizilla.com\/users\/londonbelow\/quizzes\/Which%20Dysfunctional%20Care%20Bear%20Are%20You%3F\/\"> <font size=\"-1\">Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You?<\/font><\/a><br \/> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/quizilla.com\">Quizilla<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this picture in a Google archive while looking for some graphics for another post. This was made by a company that called it the Pope John Paul II&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","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=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}