{"id":1269,"date":"2019-10-20T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:02:50","slug":"pope-announces-time-spent-watching-the-view-counts-as-time-in-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Pope announces time spent watching &#8220;The View&#8221; counts as time in purgatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4bbdbd3200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope view\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4bbdbd3200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4bbdbd3200d-320wi\" style=\"width: 320px;\" title=\"Pope view\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He could make the same pronouncement regarding CNN &#8211; or Sean Hannity&#8230; Great last line of the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/pope-announces-any-time-spent-watching-the-view-counts-as-time-served-in-purgatory\">&quot;Frankly, if you watch those women bickering, that&#39;s punishment enough,&quot; said Pope Francis in a speech. He declared that your time will be tallied up by the angels, who will then mark that off as though you&#39;d spent the time in purgatory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The pope said the exchange rate for time is about 1 hour of&#0160;<em>The View&#0160;<\/em>for a &quot;good six months&quot; of purification in purgatory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&quot;Exchange rates fluctuate, of course, and it depends on the episode,&quot; he remarked. &quot;An episode with Alyssa Milano or Chelsea Clinton is obviously worth a lot more than a regular episode.&quot;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The show&#39;s ratings saw a small bump after the announcement but ticked back down when Catholics realized they&#39;d rather just spend time in purgatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He could make the same pronouncement regarding CNN &#8211; or Sean Hannity&#8230; Great last line of the announcement. &quot;Frankly, if you watch those women bickering, that&#39;s punishment enough,&quot; said Pope Francis in a speech. He declared that your time will be tallied up by the angels, who will then mark that off as though you&#39;d [&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-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","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=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}