{"id":9003,"date":"2025-05-09T06:20:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kathleen-kennedy-townsend-says-pope-leo-xivs-welcoming-first-speech-an-important-message-at-this-time\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:20:53","slug":"kathleen-kennedy-townsend-says-pope-leo-xivs-welcoming-first-speech-an-important-message-at-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kathleen-kennedy-townsend-says-pope-leo-xivs-welcoming-first-speech-an-important-message-at-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Kennedy Townsend says Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s welcoming first speech an &#8216;important message at this time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, who was the first Roman Catholic U.S. president, reflected on Pope Leo XIV&rsquo;s first speech as a pontiff.  Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kennedy Townsend, who is the eldest daughter of the late U.S. Attorney General and U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5291528-kathleen-kennedy-townsend-pope-leo-first-message\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, who was the first Roman Catholic U.S. president, reflected on Pope Leo XIV&rsquo;s first speech as a pontiff. Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kennedy Townsend, who is the eldest daughter of the late U.S. Attorney General and U.S&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9003","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\/9003","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=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}