{"id":246779,"date":"2005-04-02T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/04\/bahamas-prays-for-pope"},"modified":"2005-04-02T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T18:48:11","slug":"bahamas-prays-for-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/04\/bahamas-prays-for-pope","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Prays For Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Archdiocese of Nassau joined in prayer with millions of Catholics around the world as Pope John Paul II neared death in the papal apartments in the Vatican, Rome. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Following two days of worsening medical problems, the 84-year-old Pontiff was spending his final hours on earth last night. His life started to ebb after his kidneys failed from complications of a urinary tract infection. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>About 70,000 people stood vigil in St Peter&#8217;s Square outside the papal apartments way past midnight and into Saturday morning, Rome time. They knew there was no hope, but many said they wanted to be near to &#8220;give him comfort&#8221; in his last hours. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Pinder offers reflection while Pope&#8217;s condition worsens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}