{"id":449,"date":"2010-01-27T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/01\/27\/new-book-claims-pope-whipped-himself-as-penance\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T09:42:00","slug":"new-book-claims-pope-whipped-himself-as-penance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/01\/27\/new-book-claims-pope-whipped-himself-as-penance\/","title":{"rendered":"New book claims Pope whipped himself as penance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY\u2014Pope John Paul II whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and slept on the floor as acts of penitence and to bring him closer to Christian perfection, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case.<\/p>\n<p>read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/books\/article\/755999--pope-john-paul-whipped-himself-as-penance-book?bn=1\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course everyone will now be thinking about Dan Brown&#8217;s albino monk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Erroll Treslan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY\u2014Pope John Paul II whipped himself with a belt, even on vacation, and slept on the floor as acts of penitence and to bring him closer to Christian perfection, according to a new book by the Polish prelate spearheading his sainthood case. read more. Of course everyone will now be thinking about Dan Brown&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}