{"id":49944,"date":"2015-05-23T18:25:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_radio_the_story_of_archbishop_oscar_romero\/"},"modified":"2015-05-23T18:25:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:25:40","slug":"vatican_radio_the_story_of_archbishop_oscar_romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49944","title":{"rendered":"(Vatican Radio) The Story of Archbishop Oscar Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something is happening in El Salvador on the 23rd of May. Not just the usual rampant violence in this nation which has one of the world\u2019s highest murder rates. But a celebration for this majority Christian nation: the beatification ceremony of one of its sons, Archbishop Oscar Romero.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was arranged following a decree approved by Pope Francis on the 3rd of February in which he declared the Salvadoran Archbishop  a martyr.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of his fellow countrymen Romero was a victim of violence and was shot at while celebrating mass on the 24th of March 1980.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2015\/05\/23\/the_story_of_archbishop_oscar_romero_\/1145204\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something is happening in El Salvador on the 23rd of May. Not just the usual rampant violence in this nation which has one of the world\u2019s highest murder rates. But a celebration for this majority Christian nation: the beatification ceremony<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49944\">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":[48,50,42,625,198,186,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-el-salvador","category-central-america","category-church-history","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49944","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=49944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}