{"id":7838,"date":"2018-04-16T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2018-04-16T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:56:31","slug":"exorcism-via-smart-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7838","title":{"rendered":"Exorcism via smart phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/loonies.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\">So far as I can tell, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/exorcism-cellphone-beating-devil-21st-century-135600929.html\" target=\"_blank\">a serious news story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>About 200 aspiring exorcists gathered on Monday for a week-long course in casting out demons &#8211; <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">including by cellphone<\/span> if necessary &#8211; amid increased demand for the service among Roman Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">They call me and we speak and that&#8217;s how I do it<\/span>,&#8221; the 89-year-old Simoni told Reuters after his address, explaining how <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">he would read the prayers of exorcism in Latin over the phone<\/span> just as he would if performing the lengthy rite in person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, technology can&#8217;t rescue civilization from its idiots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far as I can tell, this is a serious news story. About 200 aspiring exorcists gathered on Monday for a week-long course in casting out demons &#8211; including by cellphone if necessary &#8211; amid increased demand for the service &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7839,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions\/7839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}