{"id":73520,"date":"2017-10-26T23:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/hello-to-the-heavens-pope-francis-phones-the-space-station"},"modified":"2017-10-26T23:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:22:28","slug":"hello-to-the-heavens-pope-francis-phones-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/hello-to-the-heavens-pope-francis-phones-the-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Hello to the Heavens: Pope Francis Phones the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hello-to-the-heavens-pope-francis-phones-the-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis made a phone call to the International Space Station today (Oct. 26) to ask its six occupants deep questions about humanity\u2019s place in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Calling from the Vatican in Rome, Pope Francis spoke with Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency along with three NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour little glass palace in totality is greater than the sum of its parts, and this is the example that you give us,\u201d Pope Francis said through a translator. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/38034-expedition-53-space-station-photos.html\">Space Station Photos: The Expedition 53 Crew in Orbit<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/38576-pope-francis-calls-international-space-station.html?utm_content=buffer64895&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/38576-pope-francis-calls-international...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis made a phone call to the International Space Station today (Oct. 26) to ask its six occupants deep questions about humanity\u2019s place in the universe. Calling from the Vatican in Rome, Pope Francis spoke with Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency along with three NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}