{"id":2683,"date":"2010-04-13T11:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-09T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T11:50:30","slug":"one-apology-at-a-time-says-vatican-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/one-apology-at-a-time-says-vatican-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne apology at a time,\u201d says Vatican, \u201cOK?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>At a time when they surely have bigger things to think about, the Vatican&#8217;s official newspaper has published a glowing appraisal of the Beatles, calling their music &#8220;beautiful&#8221; and dismissing their years of drug use and excessive living. On the front page of the <em>L&#8217;Osservatore Romano<\/em>, the paper admits that the band once &#8220;said they were bigger than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even Satanic&#8221;, but also asks: &#8220;what would pop music have been like without the Beatles?&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/apr\/12\/vatican-beatles-john-lennon\" target=_blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pope stressed that this apology only extened to The Beatles, that he was not planning to overstep the Church&#8217;s jurisdiction regarding Rock Crimes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bgpepper2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/bgpepper2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">It&#8217;s the thought that counts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/sinead-have-i-told-you-lately-that-i-love-you\" target=_blank>Previously&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when they surely have bigger things to think about, the Vatican&#8217;s official newspaper has published a glowing appraisal of the Beatles, calling their music &#8220;beautiful&#8221; and dismissing their years of drug use and excessive living. On the front page of the L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, the paper admits that the band once &#8220;said they <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/one-apology-at-a-time-says-vatican-ok\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}