{"id":85173,"date":"2026-08-04T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85173"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:38:28","slug":"man-smashes-blessed-mother-statue-outside-st-rita-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/man-smashes-blessed-mother-statue-outside-st-rita-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Smashes Blessed Mother Statue Outside St. Rita Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Tablet:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetablet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_8901-414x375.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A statue of the Blessed Mother was smashed outside of St. Rita Church on Aug. 1, marking the fourth time in two years the church has been targeted.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:42 a.m., surveillance footage shows a masked man jump a fence into a courtyard area on St. Rita\u2019s property, take a hammer out of his pocket, and smash the statue. The force of the hit caused the statue to fall off its pedestal, and the head to break off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Tablet: A statue of the Blessed Mother was smashed outside of St. Rita Church on Aug. 1, marking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85174,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions\/85174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}