{"id":36194,"date":"2012-12-12T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_hits_1m_followers_as_he_tweets_dear_friends_i_am_pleased_to_get_in_tou\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:00:03","slug":"pope_hits_1m_followers_as_he_tweets_dear_friends_i_am_pleased_to_get_in_tou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36194","title":{"rendered":"Pope hits 1M followers as he tweets: \u201d\u02dcDear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you&#8230;\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account.<\/p>\n<p>In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter launch ever, the 85-year-old Benedict pushed the button on a tablet brought to him at the end of his general audience Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/pope-tweets-dear-friends-i-am-pleased-to-get-in-touch-with-you-through-twitter\/2012\/12\/12\/bb415650-4448-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI hit the 1 million Twitter follower mark on Wednesday as he sent his first tweet from his new account. In perhaps the most drawn out Twitter launch ever, the 85-year-old Benedict pushed the button on a tablet<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36194\">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":[39,42,433,94,154,636,108,364,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194","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=36194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}