{"id":3748,"date":"2010-12-16T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T10:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2010\/12\/vatican-video-hilarious.html"},"modified":"2010-12-16T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T10:23:25","slug":"vatican-video-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2010\/12\/vatican-video-hilarious.html","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Video: Hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you watch this you&#8217;ll be laughing even as you want to cover your eyes with your hands&#8211;it&#8217;s so funny and so wrong it&#8217;s almost painful. Four acrobats (translation: buff young men) have an audience with the pope&#8211;they are to perform for him. (Even writing this feels wrong). They approach him and what is the first thing they do? No, not a death-defying leap or impressive flip. They strip! As in, they take their shirts off. <em>Then<\/em> they stat their flipping and leaping. Half-naked!And the pope is riveted, watching as the four men, well, they balance on and around each other and then, well, do some excruciatingly slow straddles. The nuns cheer! The pope is excited. (Ack! The innuendo is impossible to avoid).This is a must see:<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-rbxov7CVi8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-rbxov7CVi8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you watch this you&#8217;ll be laughing even as you want to cover your eyes with your hands&#8211;it&#8217;s so funny and so wrong it&#8217;s almost painful. 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