{"id":76,"date":"2006-11-09T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-03-15T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T23:21:41","slug":"ccelebrating-life-over-a-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/09\/ccelebrating-life-over-a-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ccelebrating life over a beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this story and I wanted to share<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~ian.cowpar\/images\/seanpost.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LISBON (Reuters) &#8211; A Portuguese priest held hostage for 19 hours by prisoners trying to escape from a jail wants to &#8220;celebrate life&#8221; over a beer with his former captors.<\/p>\n<p>Julio Lemos, who was grabbed and kept at knife-point by two prisoners at the jail where he held mass over the weekend, said he forgave the prisoners. His two captors are both serving prison sentences for manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very easy to say they are unworthy and a bunch of assassins, but it is hard to admit that they are the result of our society,&#8221; Lemos told daily Diario de Noticias Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have every intention of going to have that beer I promised them, so that we can celebrate life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hostage drama ended as police overpowered the prisoners on their way out of the jail with the priest to an escape car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this story and I wanted to share LISBON (Reuters) &#8211; A Portuguese priest held hostage for 19 hours by prisoners trying to escape from a jail wants to &#8220;celebrate life&#8221; over a beer with his former captors. Julio Lemos, who was grabbed and kept at knife-point by two prisoners at the jail where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seanpost13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}