{"id":80521,"date":"2013-06-16T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80521"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:32:08","slug":"pope-blesses-hundreds-of-harley-davidsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=80521","title":{"rendered":"Pope blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer&#8217;s 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thundering Harley engines nearly drowned out the Latin recitation of the &#8220;Our Father&#8221; prayer that accompanied Francis as he greeted the crowd before Mass. Standing in his open-top jeep, Francis drove up the main boulevard leading to St. Peter&#8217;s Square, blessing the thousands of people in what was a giant Harley parking lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once the service got under way, bikers in their trademark leather Harley vests sat in the square alongside nuns and tens of thousands of faithful Catholics taking part in\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/pope-blesses-hundreds-harley-davidsons\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer&#8217;s 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather. Thundering Harley engines nearly drowned out the Latin recitation of the &#8220;Our Father&#8221; prayer that accompanied Francis as he greeted the crowd before Mass. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80523,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80521\/revisions\/80523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}