{"id":26085,"date":"2011-05-09T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T16:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_tweets_at_st-_petes_what_happens_when_bloggers_and_the_vatican_meet\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T16:47:49","slug":"cns_tweets_at_st-_petes_what_happens_when_bloggers_and_the_vatican_meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26085","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Tweets at St. Pete&#39;s: What happens when bloggers and the Vatican meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just can&#8217;t be done online. Like shake the hand of a blogging Benedictine nun (aka @Digitalnun on Twitter) and get her advice on how to create a profitable app with no start-up money.<\/p>\n<p>Or drink prosecco, nibble on focaccia and discover while chatting with a scientist who blogs about biology and religion that he is a Protestant married to a Muslim and couldn&#8217;t believe he was invited to a Vatican event.<\/p>\n<p>At a landmark &#8220;Blog Meet,&#8221; the pontifical councils for culture and for social communications brought together 150 bloggers &#8212; in the flesh &#8212; from all parts of the world May 2 to get a sense of their hopes and concerns. Once again, the church insisted the virtual world should only be a tool, not a substitute for, real human contact, even when the meeting underlines the extraordinary powers of new media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1101806.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just can&#8217;t be done online. Like shake the hand of a blogging Benedictine nun (aka @Digitalnun on Twitter) and get her advice on how to create a profitable app with no start-up money. Or drink prosecco, nibble on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26085\">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":[39,42,94,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085","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=26085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}