{"id":38466,"date":"2013-05-30T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_francis_shunned_official_papal_apartments_to_live_normal_life\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:00:11","slug":"pope_francis_shunned_official_papal_apartments_to_live_normal_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38466","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis shunned official papal apartments to live &#39;normal life&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has revealed for the first time the reasons for his decision to shun the official papal apartments and instead live in a much more modest Vatican &#8216;hotel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He has told a friend that he likes being in daily contact with ordinary people, does not want to be isolated and enjoys sitting down to meals with visiting clergy.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope, 76, who on first seeing the papal apartments reportedly exclaimed &#8220;But there is room here for 300 people!&#8221; hinted that the arrangement may be permanent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/the-pope\/10086876\/Pope-Francis-shunned-official-papal-apartments-to-live-normal-life.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has revealed for the first time the reasons for his decision to shun the official papal apartments and instead live in a much more modest Vatican &#8216;hotel&#8217;. He has told a friend that he likes being in daily<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38466\">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":[42,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38466","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=38466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}