{"id":102940,"date":"2020-02-27T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:23:42","slug":"pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis sick a day after supporting coronavirus sufferers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pope-francis-sick-a-day-after-supporting-coronavirus-sufferers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has come down with a \u201cslight indisposition,\u201d forcing him to cancel a planned Mass in Rome, just a day after he expressed his solidarity with coronavirus sufferers around the world \u2014 and as the disease continues to spread across Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The illness has forced the 82-year-old pontiff to nix a penitential Mass, marking the start of Lent, that he\u2019d planned to celebrate at the St. John Lateran basilica across town with Roman clergy, the Vatican said.<\/p>\n<p>Francis will proceed with the rest of his planned work Thursday, but \u201cpreferred to stay near Santa Marta,\u201d the Vatican hotel where he lives, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has come down with a \u201cslight indisposition,\u201d forcing him to cancel a planned Mass in Rome, just a day after he expressed his solidarity with coronavirus sufferers around the world \u2014 and as the disease continues to spread across Italy. The illness has forced the 82-year-old pontiff to nix a penitential Mass, marking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}