{"id":13918,"date":"2011-08-18T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:30:36","slug":"a-different-way-of-turning-the-other-cheek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-different-way-of-turning-the-other-cheek\/","title":{"rendered":"A different way of turning the other cheek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2027532\/Pew-Friars-pray-diarrhoea-afflict-unholy-thieves-stealing-bibles-Florence-church.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An order of friars, fed up at having Bibles stolen from their church, have put up a very unholy warning urging thieves to be struck down from high with &#8211; diarrhoea.<\/p>\n<p>The Franciscan Friars have turned the other cheek at a series of brazen thefts of the holy book from pews within their 594-year-old church.<\/p>\n<p>But now they have had enough, and there have been a few raised eyebrows at the tone &#8211; and nature &#8211; of the bizarre warning that has been posted at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>In both English and Italian, it reads: &#8216;We pray to the Lord that these thieves are struck down by a strong case of diarrhoea and that this will be a stimulus for them not to steal.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it\u2019s good enough for friars, it\u2019s good enough for me. Bishop Michael Bird won\u2019t know what hit him next time he tries to steal a church building; I have the notice ready to pin on the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: An order of friars, fed up at having Bibles stolen from their church, have put up a very unholy warning urging thieves to be struck down from high with &#8211; diarrhoea. The Franciscan Friars have turned the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-different-way-of-turning-the-other-cheek\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1247,1574],"class_list":["post-13918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-prayer","tag-turning-the-other-cheek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}