{"id":31477,"date":"2015-10-03T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2015-10-03T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:27:05","slug":"the-vatican-not-built-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/03\/the-vatican-not-built-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vatican: Not Built in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of becoming the Pray Tell Lego correspondent, I wanted to share a video a reader (not pictured in the video) sent me as a follow-up to my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/03\/the-worlds-smallest-priest\/\" target=\"_blank\">The World&#8217;s Smallest Priest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this video, you&#8217;ll see that a priest from the Diocese of Scranton, Fr. Bob Simon, has built a model of the Vatican in Lego blocks. It was (is?) displayed in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. I kid you not. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2XB7fVQGQp4&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">The Vatican in Lego Blocks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I&#8217;ve known Fr. Simon for many years as a fine pastor and liturgist who has made many contributions to his diocese and the region. But a talent with Lego blocks?<\/p>\n<p>Life is full of surprises.<\/p>\n<p>I now await the Lego version of a Pontifical Liturgy, with congregation.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Bob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fun with Lego blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddw-holy-see","category-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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