{"id":13225,"date":"2025-09-14T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-vatican-envoy-gifts-pope-leo-birthday-cake\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T08:20:24","slug":"trump-vatican-envoy-gifts-pope-leo-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-vatican-envoy-gifts-pope-leo-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vatican envoy gifts Pope Leo birthday cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s Vatican envoy delivered a special birthday gift to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the pontiff&rsquo;s 70th celebration on Sunday.  Brian Burch brought a cake from Portillo&rsquo;s, a popular Chicago food chain, to commemorate the U.S.-born pope&rsquo;s first birthday as head of the Catholic Church&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5502420-trump-vatican-envoy-gifts-pope-leo-birthday-cake\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump&rsquo;s Vatican envoy delivered a special birthday gift to Pope Leo XIV ahead of the pontiff&rsquo;s 70th celebration on Sunday. Brian Burch brought a cake from Portillo&rsquo;s, a popular Chicago food chain, to commemorate the U.S.-born pope&rsquo;s first birthday as head of the Catholic Church&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}