{"id":15,"date":"2005-11-02T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T03:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-01-26T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T15:52:07","slug":"joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Unitarian Universalist joke I hadn&#8217;t heard yet&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rev. David called all the children down to the front of the church to hear a &#8220;Children&#8217;s Message.&#8221; He wanted to talk to the children about planning ahead, and he decided that he would use a squirrel as an example.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now children, see if you can guess what I am thinking about,&#8221; he began. &#8220;It lives in trees and eats nuts. [pause] It is gray and jumps from branch to branch. [pause] It has a long bushy tail and buries nuts in the ground in the fall so it will have something to eat all winter long. [pause] Now raise your hand if you know what I&#8217;m thinking of!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When it became clear that none of the children was going to raise a hand, Rev. David called on one of the older girls who was sitting in front, saying to her, &#8220;What do you think I&#8217;m talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The girl replied, &#8220;Well, I know you want me to say that you&#8217;re thinking about the seven principles, but it sure sounds like you&#8217;re describing a squirrel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>All right, I admit it&#8217;s a <\/em>bad<em> Unitarian Universalist joke&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Unitarian Universalist joke I hadn&#8217;t heard yet&#8230; Rev. David called all the children down to the front of the church to hear a &#8220;Children&#8217;s Message.&#8221; He wanted to talk to the children about planning ahead, and he decided that he would use a squirrel as an example. &#8220;Now children, see if you can guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[80,337],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education","tag-seven-principles","tag-uu-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}