{"id":53537,"date":"2025-03-24T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pope-francis-returns-home-after-five-week-hospital-stay-for-pneumonia\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T08:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:11:04","slug":"pope-francis-returns-home-after-five-week-hospital-stay-for-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pope-francis-returns-home-after-five-week-hospital-stay-for-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis returns home after five-week hospital stay for pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a white Fiat 500L, wearing nasal tubes for supplemental oxygen, Pope Francis entered Vatican City, marking a sigh of relief for many who feared his illness could lead to a fatal outcome or even his resignation. <\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the motorcade, which initially overshot the Vatican, took a detour to the basilica where Francis, too weak to get out of the car, offered a bouquet of flowers to the cardinal. <\/p>\n<p>The flowers were placed in front of the revered Salus Populi Romani icon, a symbol of personal significance to the pope.<\/p>\n<p>This moment followed his first public appearance in weeks, where he briefly waved from a hospital balcony, offering a thumbs-up and blessing to the crowd. <\/p>\n<p>Despite his visible weakness, Pope Francis seemed grateful for the support of the many gathered outside the hospital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84144\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/va-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia. The 88-year-old pope, made a brief stop at his beloved St. Mary Major basilica before heading to the Vatican for rest and recovery, as prescribed by doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000084143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000084143,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gettyimages-2179609537-20250218101558805.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gettyimages-2179609537-20250218101558805.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gettyimages-2179609537-20250218101558805.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gettyimages-2179609537-20250218101558805.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gettyimages-2179609537-20250218101558805.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gettyimages-2179609537-20250218101558805.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000084143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53537"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53537"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}