{"id":42800,"date":"2014-02-26T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_benedict_rejects_rumors_on_why_he_resigned_as_simply_absurd\/"},"modified":"2014-02-26T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T22:09:19","slug":"rns_benedict_rejects_rumors_on_why_he_resigned_as_simply_absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42800","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Benedict rejects rumors on why he resigned as \u201csimply absurd\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the anniversary of his surprising resignation approaches, Pope Benedict XVI has rejected as \u201csimply absurd\u201d\u009d the speculation that he was forced to step down, and he said he still wears the distinctive white papal cassock for \u201cpurely practical reasons.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment of my resignation there were no other clothes available,\u201d\u009d Benedict wrote in a brief letter to an Italian journalist that was published on Wednesday (Feb. 26).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/02\/26\/pope-benedict-rejects-rumors-resigned-simply-absurd\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the anniversary of his surprising resignation approaches, Pope Benedict XVI has rejected as \u201csimply absurd\u201d\u009d the speculation that he was forced to step down, and he said he still wears the distinctive white papal cassock for \u201cpurely practical reasons.\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42800\">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":[39,42,89,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-media","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800","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=42800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}