{"id":51432,"date":"2015-09-03T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_pope_francis_to_city_dwellers_come_down_from_the_towers\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T21:29:00","slug":"rns_pope_francis_to_city_dwellers_come_down_from_the_towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51432","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Pope Francis to city dwellers: \u201d\u02dcCome down from the towers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Wednesday (Sept. 2) told his followers to clamber down from their lofty skyscrapers, reclaim public spaces and rejoin communities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his weekly public audience at the Vatican, the pope said it was up to families to rejuvenate cities.<\/p>\n<p>There may be a lot of ways to spend one\u2019s free time in a city, but love is missing, Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smile of a family is capable of overcoming this desertification of our cities. And this is the victory of the love of a family,\u201d\u009d he told followers in St. Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/09\/02\/pope-francis-city-dwellers-come-towers\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Wednesday (Sept. 2) told his followers to clamber down from their lofty skyscrapers, reclaim public spaces and rejoin communities. Speaking at his weekly public audience at the Vatican, the pope said it was up to families to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51432\">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":[39,42,154,637,108,364,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51432","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=51432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}