{"id":52191,"date":"2023-01-28T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/28\/i-was-a-drunk-for-20-years-the-unlikely-us-priest-revered-in-the-slums-of-bangkok"},"modified":"2023-01-28T04:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:00:01","slug":"i-was-a-drunk-for-20-years-the-unlikely-us-priest-revered-in-the-slums-of-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52191","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was a drunk for 20 years\u2019: The unlikely US priest revered in the slums of Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father Joe arrived in Bangkok in the 1970\u2019s. Fifty years, 15 schools and 30,000 students later, he credits the community with saving him<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis other priest is always drunk, so you go take his place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that simple instruction, Joseph H Maeir, a Catholic priest from the United States, found himself in Thailand, ending up in the slums of Bangkok in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/28\/i-was-a-drunk-for-20-years-the-unlikely-us-priest-revered-in-the-slums-of-bangkok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Joe arrived in Bangkok in the 1970\u2019s. Fifty years, 15 schools and 30,000 students later, he credits the community with saving him\u201cThis other priest is always drunk, so you go take his place.\u201dWith that simple instruction, Joseph H Maeir, a Cathol&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[791,41,368,371,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aids-and-hiv","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-religion","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52192,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52191\/revisions\/52192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}