{"id":37685,"date":"2013-04-06T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/michelle_boorstein-pope_francis_keeping_it_real_simple\/"},"modified":"2013-04-06T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T19:30:33","slug":"michelle_boorstein-pope_francis_keeping_it_real_simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37685","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Michelle Boorstein&#8211;Pope Francis, keeping it real simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first, the detail seemed like a compelling if random tidbit: The new pope takes the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Then similar stories kept proliferating after Pope Francis\u2019s election last month. His first words as pope were to ask for a blessing before offering one. Hours after becoming pope he called to cancel his newspaper subscription back in Buenos Aires. He chose to live in a guesthouse rather than the sprawling papal apartments. On Holy Thursday, Francis washed the feet of incarcerated women and non-Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>These acts are deemed heroic. Young Catholics by the millions are sharing images of Francis\u2019s good deeds. Many fallen-away Catholics are saying the pope\u2019s gestures of humility might bring them back to the Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/pope-francis-keeping-it-real-simple\/2013\/04\/05\/c73d206a-9d35-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, the detail seemed like a compelling if random tidbit: The new pope takes the bus. Then similar stories kept proliferating after Pope Francis\u2019s election last month. His first words as pope were to ask for a blessing before<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37685\">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":[42,154,637,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37685","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=37685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}