{"id":1161,"date":"2020-06-29T23:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:03:47","slug":"naive-young-priest-tries-to-reason-with-the-statue-destroying-book-burners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Naive young priest: Tries to reason with the statue destroying, book burners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well good try Fr. Stephen. Might as well talk to a brick. These people are the modern day version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Know_Nothing\">Know Nothing Party<\/a>. They are trying to tear down the statue of St. Louis in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">&quot;Supporters of the <strong>Know Nothing<\/strong> movement believed that an alleged &quot;Romanist&quot; conspiracy <strong>was<\/strong> being planned to subvert civil and religious liberty in the United States, and sought to politically organize native-born Protestants in what they described as a defense of their traditional religious and political values.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SYYxoe80Oz8\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well good try Fr. Stephen. Might as well talk to a brick. These people are the modern day version of the Know Nothing Party. They are trying to tear down the statue of St. Louis in St. Louis. &quot;Supporters of the Know Nothing movement believed that an alleged &quot;Romanist&quot; conspiracy was being planned to subvert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}