{"id":22773,"date":"2010-11-07T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc-pope_benedict_consecrates_barcelonas_sagrada_familia\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:05:18","slug":"bbc-pope_benedict_consecrates_barcelonas_sagrada_familia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22773","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8211;Pope Benedict consecrates Barcelona&#39;s Sagrada Familia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has consecrated Antoni Gaudi&#8217;s unfinished church, the Sagrada Familia, as a basilica in the Spanish city of Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope sprinkled holy water on the altar before a congregation of more than 6,500 people.<\/p>\n<p>Gaudi&#8217;s greatest work has been under construction for more than a century, and will not be finished before 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The current chief architect said he hoped the Pope&#8217;s visit would provide the boost needed to finish the work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-11705036\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has consecrated Antoni Gaudi&#8217;s unfinished church, the Sagrada Familia, as a basilica in the Spanish city of Barcelona. The Pope sprinkled holy water on the altar before a congregation of more than 6,500 people. Gaudi&#8217;s greatest work<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22773\">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":[39,50,42,200,154,636,108,364,446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773","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=22773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}