{"id":14368,"date":"2004-01-26T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/papal-blessing-for-break-dancers\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T20:26:00","slug":"papal-blessing-for-break-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/papal-blessing-for-break-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Papal Blessing For Break-Dancers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that is not a headline from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Onion<\/i><\/a>, although had I not seen it for myself I would&rsquo;ve thought so.  <i>CNN<\/i> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/01\/26\/pope.breakdancers.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pope John Paul II presided over a performance of break-dancers<\/a> who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tinny boom box.  The 83-year-old pontiff seemed to approve, waving his hand after each dancer completed a move, then applauding for the entire group.<br \/>\n<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>\n<br \/>During Sunday&rsquo;s show, one dancer &ndash; part of a Polish group that helps poor and marginalized youths &ndash; planted his head on the inlaid marble floor of the Vatican hall and spun to loud applause from his group and from Vatican officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just too surreal for me to wrap my brain around&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/01\/26\/pope.breakdancers.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope admires breakdancers\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/pope_breakdancers.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107514877564514375?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that is not a headline from The Onion, although had I not seen it for myself I would&rsquo;ve thought so. CNN reports: In an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II presided over a performance of break-dancers who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tinny boom box. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/26\/papal-blessing-for-break-dancers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Papal Blessing For Break-Dancers&#8221;&#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":[118],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}