{"id":12852,"date":"2009-05-17T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/modest_successes_and_missed_chances_in_popes_trip\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:01:29","slug":"modest_successes_and_missed_chances_in_popes_trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12852","title":{"rendered":"Modest Successes and Missed Chances in Pope\u2019s Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI said that he wanted to walk in Jesus\u2019 footsteps and experience the Holy Land first hand. So photographers waited eagerly by a turgid pool in the Jordan River for the pope to peer from a wooden promontory to a central spot in Christianity, where Christ is believed to have been baptized.<\/p>\n<p>But Benedict declined to get out of the golf cart that brought him there.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly an 82-year-old pope is entitled to remain seated if he likes. Yet the drive-by pilgrimage seemed to sum up his eight-day trip to Jordan, Israel and the West Bank \u201d\u201d and indeed his entire papacy so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/17\/world\/middleeast\/17pope.html?ref=europe\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI said that he wanted to walk in Jesus\u2019 footsteps and experience the Holy Land first hand. So photographers waited eagerly by a turgid pool in the Jordan River for the pope to peer from a wooden promontory<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12852\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,203,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}