{"id":8456,"date":"2008-09-15T00:06:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/150th_anniversary_of_virgin_marys_appearance_takes_pope_benedict_xvi_to_lou\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T00:06:44","slug":"150th_anniversary_of_virgin_marys_appearance_takes_pope_benedict_xvi_to_lou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8456","title":{"rendered":"150th anniversary of Virgin Mary&#39;s appearance takes Pope Benedict XVI to Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason, I suppose, why some people dislike Lourdes is that they suspect it of commerce, miracle-mongering and idolatry. It is strange that such strictures seem not to apply to the pilgrim destination of Santiago de Compostela, the shrine of the doubtful remains of an Apostle.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the likeness of the Spanish journey to a sporting challenge makes it seem wholesome.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope is due to arrive in Lourdes this afternoon and preach four times tomorrow, for the 150th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2008\/09\/13\/do1308.xml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason, I suppose, why some people dislike Lourdes is that they suspect it of commerce, miracle-mongering and idolatry. It is strange that such strictures seem not to apply to the pilgrim destination of Santiago de Compostela, the shrine<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8456\">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":[50,42,200,468,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","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=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}