{"id":29964,"date":"2011-12-20T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/prague_archbishop_remembers_havel_as_friend_fellow_prisoner\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:01:59","slug":"prague_archbishop_remembers_havel_as_friend_fellow_prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29964","title":{"rendered":"Prague archbishop remembers Havel as friend, &#39;fellow prisoner&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling former Czech President Vaclav Havel a &#8220;friend and fellow prisoner,&#8221; the president of the Czech bishops&#8217; conference said the entire nation owes Havel a debt of gratitude for its freedom and the new flourishing of Czech life and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Dominik Duka of Prague, who was imprisoned with Havel by the communists, asked that the bells of all Catholic churches in the Czech Republic ring at 6 p.m. Dec. 18 in memory of the former president who died that morning at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop, who met Havel in prison in 1981 and continued to meet with him after the end of communism in 1989, was scheduled to celebrate Havel&#8217;s funeral Mass Dec. 23 in St. Vitus Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1104973.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling former Czech President Vaclav Havel a &#8220;friend and fellow prisoner,&#8221; the president of the Czech bishops&#8217; conference said the entire nation owes Havel a debt of gratitude for its freedom and the new flourishing of Czech life and culture.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29964\">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":[39,40,50,42,92,461,200,133,154,117,151,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-czech-republic","category-europe","category-history","category-other-churches","category-philosophy","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29964","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=29964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}