{"id":26514,"date":"2009-05-22T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T08:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/22\/vatican-gets-facebook-page-iph\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T08:51:02","slug":"vatican-gets-facebook-page-iph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/vatican-gets-facebook-page-iph\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Gets Facebook Page, iPhone Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> Pope Benedict XVI has entered the world of social networking sites and smartphones with a Vatican portal that includes Facebook and iPhone applications.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope2You Web site was launched Thursday and allows Facebook users to send virtual postcards with photos of Benedict. An application for iPhone and iPod Touch gives surfers video and audio news on his travels and speeches, as well as on Catholic events worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The new portal is the latest update in the Vatican&#8217;s efforts to broaden the pope&#8217;s audience&#8230; bla bla bla<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news162199056.html\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand that the first<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/is_this_an_appropriate_faceboo.php\"> facebook picture<\/a> the holy father uploaded was   a snapshot of him and some of the cardinals tossing back umbrella drinks during their latest trip to the Hard Rock Cafe in Panama City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has entered the world of social networking sites and smartphones with a Vatican portal that includes Facebook and iPhone applications. The Pope2You Web site was launched Thursday and allows Facebook users to send virtual postcards with photos of Benedict. An application for iPhone and iPod Touch gives surfers video and audio news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/vatican-gets-facebook-page-iph\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vatican Gets Facebook Page, iPhone Apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6TE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}