{"id":11535,"date":"2021-01-22T06:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118798\/joe-biden-devout-catholic-wears-his-faith-his"},"modified":"2021-01-22T06:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:17:55","slug":"joe-biden-a-devout-catholic-wears-his-faith-on-his-sleeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/joe-biden-a-devout-catholic-wears-his-faith-on-his-sleeve\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, wears his faith on his sleeve"},"content":{"rendered":"Not since Jimmy Carter, a Baptist who has taught Bible classes well into his 90s, has the United States had a president whose life is so entwined with his faith as Joe Biden.A devout Catholic, the 78-year-old Biden is as apt to quote Scripture as he is his beloved Irish poets.Just the second Catholic president in US history \u2013 John F. Kennedy was the first \u2013 Biden wears his faith on his sleeve. Literally.Around his left wrist he often sports a rosary from the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118798\/joe-biden-devout-catholic-wears-his-faith-his\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not since Jimmy Carter, a Baptist who has taught Bible classes well into his 90s, has the United States had a president whose life is so entwined with his faith as Joe Biden.A devout Catholic, the 78-year-old Biden is as apt to quote Scripture as he is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11785,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions\/11785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}