{"id":342,"date":"2007-11-06T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2007-12-14T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T09:26:01","slug":"saudi-visit-to-vatican-shows-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/saudi-visit-to-vatican-shows-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi visit to Vatican shows the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7080327.stm\">King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visited the Pope on this European tour<\/a>.\u00a0 This meeting helps to alleviate some of the religious tension in geopolitics and an example for enlightened Muslims and Christians to observe.\u00a0 Both leaders represent communities which legislate restrictions on personal behaviour, from celibacy to limitations on public expression, and may seem to be at odds, so this engagement helps show that religion should not be an issue in global affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visited the Pope on this European tour.\u00a0 This meeting helps to alleviate some of the religious tension in geopolitics and an example for enlightened Muslims and Christians to observe.\u00a0 Both leaders represent communities which legislate restrictions on personal behaviour, from celibacy to limitations on public expression, and may seem to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/saudi-visit-to-vatican-shows-the-way\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudi visit to Vatican shows the way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-5w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}