{"id":8906,"date":"2019-09-02T13:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2019-09-02T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:34:39","slug":"pope-late-for-prayer-after-being-stuck-in-vatican-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/8906","title":{"rendered":"Pope late for prayer after being stuck in Vatican lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Pope Francis has apologised for arriving late for his weekly prayer in St Peter&#8217;s Square, saying he was stuck in a lift in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old pontiff said he had been trapped in the lift for 25 minutes because of a power outage before he was freed by firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>He then asked the crowd for a round of applause for the firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the crowd, the Pope said there had been a &#8220;drop in voltage and the elevator stopped&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank goodness, the firefighters arrived, and I thank them so much, and after 25 minutes of work they managed to get it started again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, the Pope announced that he would create ten new Roman Catholic cardinals next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has apologised for arriving late for his weekly prayer in St Peter&#8217;s Square, saying he was stuck in a lift in the Vatican. The 82-year-old pontiff said he had been trapped in the lift for 25 minutes because of a power outage before he was freed by firefighters. He then asked the crowd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}