{"id":10397,"date":"2013-10-29T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2013-10-29T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:52:07","slug":"vatican-culture-minister-tweets-lou-reed-tribute-then-a-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/vatican-culture-minister-tweets-lou-reed-tribute-then-a-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican culture minister tweets Lou Reed tribute, then a clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (JTA) &#8212; The Vatican&#8217;s culture minister tweeted a tribute to the iconic Jewish-born singer Lou Reed, then a clarification that he did not condone drug use.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi on Monday tweeted a verse from Reed\u2019s song \u201cPerfect Day.\u201d Reed died Sunday at 71 of complications following a liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>On @CardRavasi, the clergyman wrote, \u201cOh, it&#8217;s such a perfect day\/ I&#8217;m glad I spend it with you\/ Oh, such a perfect day\/ You just keep me hanging on (Lou Reed).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the lyrics seemingly refer to a love story, the \u201cyou\u201d also has been interpreted as being heroin &#8212; as some of the replies to the tweet noted.<\/p>\n<p>In his following tweet, Ravasi also mentioned Reed and clarified that he did not condone drugs. He warned against \u201cillusions\u201d and quoted the Bible verse about reaping what you sow, noting that Reed himself had used that line in \u201cPerfect Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ravasi\u2019s tweet before his Lou Reed tribute also quoted a Jewish cultural figure, the Israeli writer Amos Oz. He tweeted, in Italian, \u201cI never saw a religious fanatic with a sense of humor. Nor a person with a sense of humor becoming a fanatic. (Amos Oz)\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Vatican%20culture%20minister%20tweets%20Lou%20Reed%20tribute%2C%20then%20a%20clarification\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[4177,4176,8790,8795,4135,8788,1877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}