{"id":328,"date":"2005-04-20T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2005\/04\/20\/is_it_just_me\/"},"modified":"2005-04-20T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T08:43:01","slug":"is_it_just_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/04\/20\/is_it_just_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it just me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/pope.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leslie Nielsen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/nielsen.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nRatzinger is, as I see it, a safe choice &#8211; he&#8217;s European, but he&#8217;s not Italian (nor is he Jewish). He is conservative, but probably nowhere near as conservative as the various Latin American candidates. He was close, professionally and personally, to Pope JPII, so there are no radical changes &#8211; good or bad &#8211; looming. As <a href=\"http:\/\/shakylegs.blogspot.com\/\">Michel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000526.html#comments\">points out<\/a>, he has some questionable entries on his CV, but as <a href=\"http:\/\/brucesmallsurveys.typepad.com\/bruce_and_vicki_small\/\">Bruce<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/archives\/000526.html#comments\">counters<\/a>, these should be taken with a grain of salt.<br \/>\nMost importantly, he&#8217;s 78. That&#8217;s 20 years older than JPII was when he was elected. Benedict XVI is not expected to last.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s the rebound pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ratzinger is, as I see it, a safe choice &#8211; he&#8217;s European, but he&#8217;s not Italian (nor is he Jewish). He is conservative, but probably nowhere near as conservative as the various Latin American candidates. He was close, professionally and personally, to Pope JPII, so there are no radical changes &#8211; good or bad &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2005\/04\/20\/is_it_just_me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is it just me?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}