{"id":1082,"date":"2023-12-19T05:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T05:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/it-used-to-be-hard-to-be-a-good-catholic\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T05:16:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T05:16:40","slug":"it-used-to-be-hard-to-be-a-good-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/it-used-to-be-hard-to-be-a-good-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"It Used to be Hard to be a Good Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/it-used-to-be-hard-to-be-a-good-catholic?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcome=true\">latest<\/a>. Another taste of John Fante with a bit of commentary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3a1e841200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fante and L. A. palm tree\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3a1e841200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d3a1e841200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Fante and L. A. palm tree\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Tony Flood comments, &quot;A priest is now authorized to bless the fornicating couple who recently befouled a Senate hearing room.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. Another taste of John Fante with a bit of commentary. Tony Flood comments, &quot;A priest is now authorized to bless the fornicating couple who recently befouled a Senate hearing room.&quot;&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,435,40,139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-fante-john","category-literary-matters","category-religion","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}