{"id":5621,"date":"2005-04-01T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2005-04-01T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T08:52:18","slug":"successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/04\/01\/successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind all the feeble speculation in the media about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/4396295.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">who should be the next Who<\/a> (I favour Moira Stewart, or maybe my father in law &#8211; or both), the question we should be asking is this &#8211; who will be the next Pope?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d love to have a go at a job like that. Firstly, I&#8217;d issue a few papal edicts for a bit of a laugh &#8211; things such as &quot;the pious shall hop on their left foot on Tuesdays&quot; and &quot;the Lord favours those who wear blue socks&quot;. But, after that, I&#8217;d dismantle the whole ridiculous edifice and give the accumulated wealth that the Catholic church possesses to those who really need it.<br \/>\nWhat would you do if you were in the Papal shoes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind all the feeble speculation in the media about who should be the next Who (I favour Moira Stewart, or maybe my father in law &#8211; or both), the question we should be asking is this &#8211; who will be the next Pope? I&#8217;d love to have a go at a job like that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}