{"id":2996,"date":"2002-02-01T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2002-02-01T19:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:36:12","slug":"st-peters-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/2002\/02\/01\/st-peters-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2997\" src=\"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ITR11b-0202a-e1481571727505.jpg\" alt=\"itr11b-0202a\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" \/>Vatican City<\/p>\n<p>The Apostle Peter was crucified upside down, because he considered himself unworthy to die in the same manner as Jesus, in 64 AD. \u00a0Tradition says that it took place near an ancient Egyptian Obelisk in the Circus of Nero. \u00a0The obelisk now stands in St. Peter&#8217;s Square. \u00a0Catholic tradition holds that the Basilica was built on the burial site of Peter, now a Saint and for Catholics, their first Pope. \u00a0There have been many churches on this site, this newer one was completed in 1626.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City The Apostle Peter\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/2002\/02\/01\/st-peters-basilica\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,16,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-churches-thru-my-eyes","category-rome-thrumyeyes","category-vatican-city","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrumyeyes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}