{"id":104,"date":"2006-02-16T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/wordpress\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-05-28T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:07:45","slug":"joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A priest was delivering a sermon entitled &#8220;Stand Still and let the good Lord Fight your battles&#8221;, on the topic of not fighting but letting God vanquish evil himself. As he was delivering the sermon, a gust of wind lifted his garment and the congregation noticed he was carrying a gun.<\/p>\n<p>After the service a congregant asked him, &#8220;I understood your sermon, but aren&#8217;t you contradicting yourself by carrying a gun? You did say you are supposed to let the Lord fight your battles for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did say that, yes,&#8221; said the priest. &#8220;The gun is just to hold them off until the Lord gets here&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A priest was delivering a sermon entitled &#8220;Stand Still and let the good Lord Fight your battles&#8221;, on the topic of not fighting but letting God vanquish evil himself. As he was delivering the sermon, a gust of wind lifted his garment and the congregation noticed he was carrying a gun. After the service a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/joke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattjm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}