{"id":626,"date":"2006-09-16T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2008-11-30T19:54:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T00:54:41","slug":"another-church-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Another church joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent far too long writing and rewriting this week&#8217;s sermon. Time for bed, but before I go, here&#8217;s a joke I heard today from Rev. Eric Cherry of Unity Church in North Easton:<\/p>\n<p>The minister droned on and on with the sermon, putting half the congregation to sleep. At last he finished, and at the close of the worship service he announced, &#8220;Will all Board members please join me for a meeting after the final hymn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of going to coffee hour, the Board members dutifully followed the minister into a meeting room off the parish hall. Just as the door was about to close, another man walked in, someone no one knew. The minister said, &#8220;Perhaps you didn&#8217;t understand, this meeting is for Board members of the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh,&#8221; said the man, &#8220;I&#8217;m a bored member of the church, I&#8217;ve never been so bored in my life as I was during that sermon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent far too long writing and rewriting this week&#8217;s sermon. Time for bed, but before I go, here&#8217;s a joke I heard today from Rev. Eric Cherry of Unity Church in North Easton: The minister droned on and on with the sermon, putting half the congregation to sleep. At last he finished, and at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[337],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","tag-uu-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}