{"id":427,"date":"2015-10-15T18:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2015-10-15T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T22:53:05","slug":"anthony-meets-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Anthony meets the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis visited Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago. It was a historic occasion. I even got a glimpse of the papal icon as he zipped by me in his little Fiat on my way to work. You can barely make him out in the far backside of the car.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_429\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/popemobile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-429\" src=\"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/popemobile.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Reed Sandridge\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/popemobile.jpg 960w, https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/popemobile-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Reed Sandridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I thought that was pretty cool. When I told Anthony, he said, &#8220;I got to meet the Pope. He&#8217;s got soft and warm hands.&#8221; Yep, Anthony met the Pope at a luncheon that several homeless and formerly homeless men and women were invited to attend. Check out the photo he snapped from his phone and the <a href=\"http:\/\/streetsense.org\/article\/shaking-pope-francis-hand\/#.ViAs-RNViko\" target=\"_blank\">article he wrote for\u00a0Street Sense<\/a> about the experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_428\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anthonypope.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-428\" src=\"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anthonypope.png\" alt=\"Photo: Anthony Crawford\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anthonypope.png 563w, https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anthonypope-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Anthony Crawford<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis visited Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago. It was a historic occasion. I even got a glimpse of the papal icon as he zipped by me in his little Fiat on my way to work. You can barely make him out in the far backside of the car. I thought that was pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,38],"tags":[13,193,192,194,19,195],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-on-anthony","category-updates-on-reed","tag-anthony","tag-famous-people","tag-pope","tag-religion","tag-washington-dc","tag-world-leaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthonyandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}