{"id":8128,"date":"2014-04-27T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T05:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:48:49","slug":"st-peters-square-overflows-for-four-popes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/27\/st-peters-square-overflows-for-four-popes\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter&#8217;s Square overflows for four popes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY &#8212; Tens of thousands of people have filled St. Peter&#8217;s Square for a historic day of four popes, with Popes Francis and Benedict XVI honoring John XXIII and John Paul II by declaring them saints in the first ever canonization of two pontiffs.<\/p>\n<p>Polish pilgrims carrying the red and white flags of John Paul&#8217;s beloved homeland were among the first to press into the square well before sunrise Sunday, held back by human chains of neon-vested civil protection workers trying to maintain order.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those who arrived first had camped out overnight on air mattresses and sleeping pads along the side streets leading to the square. Others hadn&#8217;t slept at all and took part in the all-night prayer vigils hosted at a dozen churches in downtown Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY &#8212; Tens of thousands of people have filled St. Peter&#8217;s Square for a historic day of four popes, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1145],"tags":[2551,2615,2300,2389],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-culture","category-headline","tag-canonization","tag-pope-benedict","tag-pope-francis","tag-pope-john-paul-ii","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","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=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}