{"id":5261,"date":"2014-01-17T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2014-01-23T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T00:02:14","slug":"christ-the-redeemer-gives-us-the-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/17\/christ-the-redeemer-gives-us-the-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ The Redeemer Gives Us The Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Lightning strikes the right hand of the statue Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 16, 2014.Photo: EPA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Lightning breaks finger off Rio\u2019s Christ\u00a0statue<\/h1>\n<p>By News.com.au<\/p>\n<div data-picture=\"\" data-alt=\"Lightning breaks finger off Rio\u2019s Christ\u00a0statue\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lightning strikes the right hand of the statue Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 16, 2014.Photo: EPA\" alt=\"Lightning breaks finger off Rio\u2019s Christ\u00a0statue\" src=\"http:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/epaselect_brazil_weather_rain_87303069.jpg?w=720&amp;h=480&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lightning has broken a finger off the right hand of Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>Father Omar, rector of the shrine that holds the statue, told the Globo radio station that lightning frequently strikes the nearly 100-foot tall statue, a symbol of Rio that overlooks the Brazilian city from the peak of the Corcovado mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Its right hand had been damaged sometime ago, but the finger finally broke off in a storm late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/17\/lightning-breaks-finger-off-christ-the-redeemer-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYPost.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Post Lightning breaks finger off Rio\u2019s Christ\u00a0statue By News.com.au Lightning has broken a finger off the right hand of Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Father Omar, rector of the shrine that holds the statue, told the Globo radio station that lightning frequently strikes the nearly 100-foot tall statue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}