{"id":17956,"date":"2011-02-09T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2011-02-09T06:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:41:16","slug":"forgive-me-mr-jobs-for-i-have-sinned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17956","title":{"rendered":"Forgive Me, Mr. Jobs, For I Have Sinned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has, um, given its blessing to a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfnews13.com\/article\/news\/2011\/february\/205895\/Catholic-bishop-approves-Confession-iPhone-app\"> Confession&#8221; iPhone app<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Catholic bishop in Indiana has approved &#8220;Confession: A Roman Catholic App,&#8221; created by a company called Little iApps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/appstorehq-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/confession-aromancatholicapp-iphone-597705.320x480.1296378571.43226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For $1.99, Catholics can use their iPhone to help them examine their conscience as part of the sacrament of reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a catch: The application is not designed to replace going into the confession booth.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll still have to see a priest to be absolved from your sins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(CLOSED CIRCUIT TO I.T. GEEKS)<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic version uses a three-tiered architecture. \u00a0The Lutherans and Presbyterians are reportedly working on a two-tier version of the app.<\/p>\n<p>(END CLOSED CIRCUIT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has, um, given its blessing to a &#8220; Confession&#8221; iPhone app: A Catholic bishop in Indiana has approved &#8220;Confession: A Roman Catholic App,&#8221; created by a company called Little iApps. For $1.99, Catholics can use their iPhone to help them examine their conscience as part of the sacrament of reconciliation. But there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17959,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}