{"id":8736,"date":"2012-02-12T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-priest-rescued-from-spiritual-retreat-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-12T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T21:18:00","slug":"struth-priest-rescued-from-spiritual-retreat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/02\/struth-priest-rescued-from-spiritual-retreat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Priest rescued from &#8216;spiritual retreat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qaMppKZDEZA\/TzgskOpCLjI\/AAAAAAAATLU\/QltSDPt_UZ0\/s1600\/Ship%2BCosta%2BConcordia%2BMarine%2BConservation%2BInstitute%2B2-787972.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qaMppKZDEZA\/TzgskOpCLjI\/AAAAAAAATLU\/QltSDPt_UZ0\/s320\/Ship%2BCosta%2BConcordia%2BMarine%2BConservation%2BInstitute%2B2-787972.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a priest&#8217;s &#8220;spiritual retreat&#8221; on the now well-publicised Costa Concordia landed him not only in the ocean, but in hot water as well.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old priest told parishioners that he was going on the &#8220;spiritual retreat&#8221; for a couple of weeks, and had arranged for a substitute priest to cover for him while he took time out to reflect on his vows, and to meditate and pray.<\/p>\n<p>He was busted on Facebook after his niece, who was with him on the ship, posted that she and all her family, &#8220;including uncle Massimo&#8221;, were safe and well.<\/p>\n<p>One angry parishioner told a local newspaper in the priest&#8217;s town: &#8220;It&#8217;s a bit difficult to understand how he was going to go on a spiritual retreat on board a cruise liner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Marine Conservation Institute)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a priest&#8217;s &#8220;spiritual retreat&#8221; on the now well-publicised Costa Concordia landed him not only in the ocean, but in hot water as well. The 41-year-old priest told parishioners that he was going on the &#8220;spiritual retreat&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-8736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}