{"id":4857,"date":"2019-03-31T23:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2019-03-31T23:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:30:03","slug":"papal-snatch-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/papal-snatch-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Papal Snatch Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<strong><em>Pope&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>is suddenly against people kissing his ring \u2013 a tradition that dates back centuries.&nbsp; The&nbsp;<em>Pontiff&nbsp;<\/em>feels the practice is \u201cnon-hygienic\u201d \u2013 \u2018cause Heaven knows where that ring\u2019s been.&nbsp; Call me old-fashioned, but I like a bit of theatricality with my religion.&nbsp; And I\u2019ve never heard a Catholic priest turn down anything oral!&nbsp; But you know what I also like?&nbsp; A sassy Pope!&nbsp; Have you seen recent videos of the Pope\u2019s meet-and-greets?&nbsp; Well, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s not what the Vatican calls \u2018em, but people line up to meet the Pope, he extends his hand, they lean in to kiss the ring, and BANG \u2013 he snatches it back with a smile which seems to say, \u201cGotcha!\u201d&nbsp; I\u2019m all about a Papal snatch-back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Pope&nbsp;is suddenly against people kissing his ring \u2013 a tradition that dates back centuries.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Pontiff&nbsp;feels the practice is \u201cnon-hygienic\u201d \u2013 \u2018cause Heaven knows where that ring\u2019s been.&nbsp; Call me old-fashioned, but I like a bit of theatricality with my religion.&nbsp; And I\u2019ve never heard a Catholic priest turn down anything oral!&nbsp; But you know what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}