{"id":2057,"date":"2016-02-29T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:38:41","slug":"great-lenten-read-the-popes-recent-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Great Lenten read: The Pope&#8217;s recent book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c81ba55a970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Name of god is mercy\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c81ba55a970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c81ba55a970b-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"Name of god is mercy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s wonderful. I just finished it a second time. Short, straightforward, uncomplicated. It takes only a bit over an hour to read. Best to break it up into smaller sections over 4 -6 days.&#0160; It also comes with the original letter Pope Francis wrote announcing the year of mercy. Takes another half hour to read that.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the kindle version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Name-God-Mercy-Pope-Francis-ebook\/dp\/B017G7IVTG\/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1456721738&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+name+of+god+is+mercy\">The Name of God Is Mercy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course that can also get you to the print version. Plenty of online reviews &#8211; you really have to shake your head over the 4% of one star (the lowest rating) reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s wonderful. I just finished it a second time. Short, straightforward, uncomplicated. It takes only a bit over an hour to read. Best to break it up into smaller sections over 4 -6 days.&#0160; It also comes with the original letter Pope Francis wrote announcing the year of mercy. Takes another half hour to read [&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-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6839,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}