{"id":31549,"date":"2012-03-24T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_pope_encounters_a_wounded_depressed_mexico\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T19:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:27:33","slug":"npr_pope_encounters_a_wounded_depressed_mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31549","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Pope Encounters A &#39;Wounded, Depressed&#39; Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pope Benedict XVI comes during a very different time [than his predecessor]. With a country wounded, depressed by the prolonged violence,&#8221; [Bernardo ] Barranco says, &#8220;a country that doesn&#8217;t have a clear vision of its own future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters on his flight from Rome to Mexico, Benedict denounced the drug violence that&#8217;s claimed almost 50,000 lives here over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>This is expected to be one of the leading themes of his visit to Mexico. He&#8217;s also expected to call for a return to traditional Catholic values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/03\/24\/149275841\/pope-encounters-a-wounded-depressed-mexico\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pope Benedict XVI comes during a very different time [than his predecessor]. With a country wounded, depressed by the prolonged violence,&#8221; [Bernardo ] Barranco says, &#8220;a country that doesn&#8217;t have a clear vision of its own future.&#8221; Speaking with reporters<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31549\">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":[39,40,50,42,99,197,154,151,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-mexico","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549","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=31549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}