{"id":8717,"date":"2010-06-21T03:25:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T03:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/mission-accomplished-vatican-blesses-blues\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:35:14","slug":"mission-accomplished-vatican-blesses-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/mission-accomplished-vatican-blesses-blues\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8717 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/mission-accomplished-vatican-blesses-blues\/attachment\/8718\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4chigSGQD1qzxaqho1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4chigSGQD1qzxaqho1_400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4chigSGQD1qzxaqho1_400-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/tumblr_l4chigSGQD1qzxaqho1_400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/international\/mission_accomplished_vatican_blesses_gex4vIBiJ78B9Pgukel42I?CMP=OTC-rss&amp;FEEDNAME=\" target=\"_blank\">Mission accomplished: Vatican blesses <em>Blues Brothers<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep looking for an April Fools joke or something, but apparently this is true:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They really were &ldquo;on a mission from God.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a stunning move  by the Vatican, the classic Dan Aykroyd-John Belushi comedy film <em>The  Blues Brothers<\/em> was declared a &ldquo;Catholic classic&rdquo; alongside more pious  films such as <em>The Ten Commandments<\/em> and <em>The Passion of the Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in the Vatican&rsquo;s official newspaper  L&#8217;Osservatore Romano, corresponding with 30th anniversary of the release  of the film.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission accomplished: Vatican blesses Blues Brothers I keep looking for an April Fools joke or something, but apparently this is true: They really were &ldquo;on a mission from God.&rdquo; In a stunning move by the Vatican, the classic Dan Aykroyd-John Belushi comedy film The Blues Brothers was declared a &ldquo;Catholic classic&rdquo; alongside more pious films &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/mission-accomplished-vatican-blesses-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","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=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8719,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions\/8719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}