{"id":31539,"date":"2012-03-24T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/did_you_know_a_child_helps_select_the_next_coptic_pope\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T15:00:26","slug":"did_you_know_a_child_helps_select_the_next_coptic_pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31539","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know a Child Helps Select the next Coptic Pope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no quorum for the election, and once the votes have been counted the names of the three top candidates will be announced. The Sunday following the elections, a procedure will be held at St Mark&#8217;s Church in Cairo to choose the next pope from among the three top candidates. Their names will be placed on the altar, and after mass a blindfolded child will pick one of the names. The name of the person picked will become the next pope of the Coptic Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/blog\/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&#038;entry_id=5013\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no quorum for the election, and once the votes have been counted the names of the three top candidates will be announced. The Sunday following the elections, a procedure will be held at St Mark&#8217;s Church in Cairo<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31539\">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":[39,42,101,411,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-coptic-church","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31539","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=31539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}