{"id":137213,"date":"2025-04-23T14:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/the-pope-who-loved-football-how-francis-brought-the-beautiful-game-to-the-vatican\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:49:06","slug":"the-pope-who-loved-football-how-francis-brought-the-beautiful-game-to-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/the-pope-who-loved-football-how-francis-brought-the-beautiful-game-to-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"The pope who loved football: How Francis brought the beautiful game to the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis had a lifelong passion for football, from supporting San Lorenzo and organising peace-promoting matches to inviting legends like Messi and Maradona to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/04\/23\/the-pope-who-loved-football-how-francis-brought-the-beautiful-game-to-the-vatican\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis had a lifelong passion for football, from supporting San Lorenzo and organising peace-promoting matches to inviting legends like Messi and Maradona to the Vatican. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":137214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}