{"id":252972,"date":"2022-12-09T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252972"},"modified":"2022-12-09T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:43:40","slug":"who-knew-that-the-numbering-of-popes-named-john-could-be-so-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/12\/09\/who-knew-that-the-numbering-of-popes-named-john-could-be-so-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Who knew that the numbering of popes named John could be so complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a whole Wikipedia page devoted to the topic of the numbering of the 21 or so different popes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_John_numbering\">who have been named John something<\/a>, with the last one being John XXIII, who reigned (or whatever they call it) from 1958 to 1963. As the article explains: &#8220;Although there have been twenty-one legitimate\u00a0popes\u00a0named John, the numbering has reached John XXIII because of two clerical errors that were introduced in the Middle Ages: first,\u00a0antipope John XVI\u00a0was kept in the numbering sequence instead of being removed; then, the number XX was skipped because pope John XXI counted\u00a0John XIV\u00a0twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"271\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-69.png?resize=525%2C271&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252973\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a whole Wikipedia page devoted to the topic of the numbering of the 21 or so different popes who have been named John something, with the last one being John XXIII, who reigned (or whatever they call it) from 1958 to 1963. As the article explains: &#8220;Although there have been twenty-one legitimate\u00a0popes\u00a0named John, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/12\/09\/who-knew-that-the-numbering-of-popes-named-john-could-be-so-complicated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who knew that the numbering of popes named John could be so complicated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}