{"id":320,"date":"2005-04-04T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=320"},"modified":"2005-04-04T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T23:02:56","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It makes me very happy to know that I am not alone in my opinion of John Paul II compared to John XXIII, especially when those opinions are shared by one who is erudite and well-informed on matters concerning the Catholic Church.<br \/>\nA splendid piece by Frances Kissling, the president of Catholics for a Free Choice, was published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2005\/04\/04\/pope_legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">salon.com<\/a> under the title &#8220;A divider, not a uniter&#8221;.<br \/>\nSalon prohibits reproduction of materials from its site, otherwise I would have copied the whole essay here.  Believe me, it&#8217;s worth clicking through one of their sponsorship ads to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes me very happy to know that I am not alone in my opinion of John Paul II compared to John XXIII, especially when those opinions are shared by one who is erudite and well-informed on matters concerning the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}