{"id":4932,"date":"2010-12-31T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/31\/even-in-monastery-fires-there-are\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:49","slug":"even-in-monastery-fires-there-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4932","title":{"rendered":"Even In Monastery Fires There Are Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18408,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.abbaye-rochefort.be&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18409,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/news\\\/world-europe-12092805&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/news\\\/world-europe-12092805&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Trappist (Cistercian) monks at the 13th century monastery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbaye-rochefort.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre-Dame de St-Remy Abbey<\/a> in Belgium are best known for brewing their Trappistes Rochefort beer. On Wednesday, while the monks were at dinner, a fire broke out that destroyed a good part of the monastery. Fortunately, none of the monks were injured or killed in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe firemen who fought the blaze made it their priority to protect the monastery&#8217;s library with its collection of 700-year old rare books and the brewery. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-12092805\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Francois Bellot, mayor of Rochefort, said he was confident that it would be possible to resume beer production within a few days.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This monastery is only one of five that brews Trappist beer and has been producing this strong beer (7.5- 12% ABV) since 1595. <\/p>\n<p>So if you plan to celebrate tonight with a good strong Belgian beer like the Trappistes Rochefort, remember the firemen who preserved that part of the monastery. Also, say a prayer for the now-homeless monks as they go about doing God&#8217;s work by brewing one of the world&#8217;s best beers.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trappist (Cistercian) monks at the 13th century monastery Notre-Dame de St-Remy Abbey in Belgium are best known for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4499],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trappistes-rochefort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}