{"id":1923,"date":"2025-05-04T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:26:34","slug":"an-elderly-pope-arrives-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"An elderly Pope arrives in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly Pope, arriving in New York, convinced his limousine driver to let him drive. Speeding at over 100 mph, he was pulled over. The shocked officer, seeing the Pope, told his sergeant he\u2019d stopped someone more important than the President. \u201cWho?!\u201d the sergeant asked. \u201cI don\u2019t know\u2026 but the Pope\u2019s driving for him,\u201d the officer replied. In another tale, a priest, pulled over for speeding, smelled of alcohol. Denying drinking anything but water, he exclaimed, \u201cGood Lord, He\u2019s done it again!\u201d when the officer noted the wine smell. These stories show even holy figures enjoy a bit of mischief, blending faith with humor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>An elderly Pope, arriving in New York, convinced his limousine driver to let him drive. Speeding at over 100 mph, he was pulled over. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=1923\" title=\"An elderly Pope arrives in New York\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}