{"id":4020,"date":"2013-03-12T07:16:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T21:18:59","slug":"conclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/03\/12\/conclave\/","title":{"rendered":"Conclave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Roman Catholic myself, but I certainly consider them my brothers and sisters and so I am following the election of the new Pope that started today. I was sad to see B16 go. He was a straight-shooter and a smart cookie. I&#8217;m glad he decided to retire though rather than be too weak to lead for the next (who knows?) ten years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/peter-turkson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4021 lazyload\" alt=\"peter-turkson\" data-src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/peter-turkson.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"325\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/peter-turkson.jpg 440w, http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/peter-turkson-300x221.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 440px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 440\/325;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My vote for the new guy? Peter Turkson from Ghana. I know he&#8217;s a long-shot, but I think a black African pope would be pretty cool. His election would silence many centuries of criticism. From what I&#8217;ve read of the guy, he seems to have his head on right. He also speaks six languages &#8211; not too shabby. Still, I think we&#8217;ll probably have to wait another generation or two before we see something like that happen. A Pope from Latin America would probably be more appropriate right now. I&#8217;d cheer for that too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a Roman Catholic myself, but I certainly consider them my brothers and sisters and so I am following the election of the new Pope that started today. I was sad to see B16 go. He was a straight-shooter and a smart cookie. I&#8217;m glad he decided to retire though rather than be too &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2013\/03\/12\/conclave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conclave&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}