{"id":8252,"date":"2008-07-22T12:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2010-07-21T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T11:03:18","slug":"i-thought-to-put-together-heavy-metal-music-and-a-capucin-friar-was-strange-to-say-the-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8252","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I thought to put together heavy metal music and a Capucin friar was strange, to say the least.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian Capucin monk went to a Metallica concert 15 years ago and his life was forever changed.  He is still a Capucin monk, only now he is also the lead singer in an Italian heavy metal band.  The quote in the subject line is from one of his band-mates.<\/p>\n<p>The monk says:  &#8220;I am religious.  I am a priest.  But I don&#8217;t play to draw people closer to Christ, or the church, or to religion.  I do it to convert people to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rock on, friar.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S_PM6a0AG0E&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S_PM6a0AG0E&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks for pointing to this, <a href=\"http:\/\/everseradio.com\/heavy-metal-monk\/\">Ernie<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian Capucin monk went to a Metallica concert 15 years ago and his life was forever changed. He is still a Capucin monk, only now he is also the lead singer in an Italian heavy metal band. The quote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23881,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/23881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}