{"id":25446,"date":"2014-09-11T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25446"},"modified":"2014-09-11T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:17:49","slug":"before-the-papal-visit-filipinos-can-take-a-papal-selfie-with-life-size-cardboard-cutouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/11\/before-the-papal-visit-filipinos-can-take-a-papal-selfie-with-life-size-cardboard-cutouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the papal visit, Filipinos can take a papal selfie with life size cardboard cutouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-840\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pope_Francis_in_March_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-840\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Pope_Francis_in_March_2013.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Casa Rosada \/ Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"996\" height=\"996\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Casa Rosada \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014In Asia\u2019s bastion of Roman Catholic faith, images of Pope Francis are getting the pop star treatment.<\/p>\n<p>A church-run radio station in the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0is distributing life-size cardboard cutouts of the pope to generate \u201cpapal fever\u201d among selfie-loving Filipinos before the pope\u2019s visit in January.<\/p>\n<p>At the SM Mall of Asia, students, families and other shoppers on Wednesday snapped pictures of themselves beside the papal standee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw the picture &#8230; he seemed alive, it\u2019s very nice,\u201d said Rosalima Magala, who had her picture taken beside the papal standee at the Mall of Asia. A 36-year-old government employee from central Cebu City, Magala was named after St. Rose of Lima and said she hopes to see Pope Francis in person during his visit.<\/p>\n<p>Another mall visitor, Arnel Ocay, a college teacher from northern Pangasinan province, said the pope\u2019s trip is a big event for Catholics and he will be among those who will participate.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Anton Pascual, president of Radio Veritas, said via text that the standees were part of an effort to spread the message of mercy and compassion.<\/p>\n<p>The first cardboard cutouts were sent to churches, schools and malls in the capital, and more will be printed to distribute around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0on Jan. 15-19 and is expected to meet survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, which killed 6,300 people and left 1,061 missing last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014In Asia\u2019s bastion of Roman Catholic faith, images of Pope Francis are getting the pop star treatment. A church-run radio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,7265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ph","category-news-weird","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}