{"id":1702,"date":"2013-03-12T22:41:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2019-03-14T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T05:50:09","slug":"pope-benedicts-helicopter-pilot-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict&#8217;s helicopter pilot licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiscussingAdventismBook\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1702\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"400px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1702\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"attachment_1506\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1506\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1506 \" alt=\"Pope Benedict XVI wearing a camauro\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BenedettoXVIcamauro-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Benedict XVI wearing a <a title=\"Camauro\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camauro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">camauro<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Over at <a title=\"How did Pope Benedict get his pilots license?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.answers.com\/Q\/How_did_Pope_Benedict_XVI_get_his_pilots_license\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WikiAnswers<\/a>, someone asked how Pope Benedict XVI got his helicopter pilot licence.<\/p>\n<p>The answer given is quite correct &#8211; &#8220;<em>By taking lessons, and then by taking the exam.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was <a title=\"Flying the papal helicopter\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171002100156\/http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2013\/02\/pope-benedict-xvi-6-surprising-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even allowed to fly the papal helicopter<\/a> in the earlier days of his papacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at WikiAnswers, someone asked how Pope Benedict XVI got his helicopter pilot&#8217;s licence.  The answer given is quite correct &#8211; &#8220;By taking lessons, and then by taking the exam.&#8221;  He was even allowed to fly the papal helicopter in the earlier days of his papacy.<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/?p=1702\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[275,343,13],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic","tag-camauro","tag-helicopter-licence","tag-pope-benedict","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fpVQ-rs","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BenedettoXVIcamauro.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theotokos.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}