{"id":1581,"date":"2018-04-15T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:20:45","slug":"pope-benedict-turns-91-monday-will-celebrate-with-a-beer-or-two-hes-bavarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict turns 91 Monday; will celebrate with a beer (or two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course he will &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_life_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI\"> he&#39;s from Bavaria<\/a>. Evidently his body is frail and failing but his mind is still very sharp.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c9611634970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope benedict beer\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c9611634970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c9611634970b-250wi\" style=\"width: 240px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Pope benedict beer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here he is on his last birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2017\/04\/pope-benedict-celebrates-his-90th-birthday-in-fine-fashion-.html\">Pope Benedict celebrates his 90th birthday in fine fashion &#8211;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course he will &#8211; he&#39;s from Bavaria. Evidently his body is frail and failing but his mind is still very sharp. Here he is on his last birthday. Pope Benedict celebrates his 90th birthday in fine fashion &#8211; &#0160; &#0160;<\/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-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7772,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/7772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}