{"id":112,"date":"2000-06-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=112"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"The Devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"The Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural area, Sunday morning, church is packed and the devil decides to pay a visit.<\/p>\n<p>The doors burst open, and a roiling black cloud rolls in with the devil in its midst.  People jump out of the pews and run outdoors, screaming &#8211; all except for two.  One is the Pastor, the other is an elderly farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Satan is a bit perplexed.  He points to the Pastor and says, &#8220;You! I can understand why you didn&#8217;t run away.  You are in your Lord&#8217;s house, you preach against me everyday and you aren&#8217;t afraid of me.  But YOU (points to the farmer), why didn&#8217;t you run out scared like everyone else?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The farmer crosses one leg over the other and drawls, &#8220;Why, I&#8217;m surprised you don&#8217;t recognize me.  I&#8217;ve been married to your sister for 36 years!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural area, Sunday morning, church is packed and the devil decides to pay a visit. The doors burst open, and a roiling black cloud rolls in with the devil in its midst. People jump out of the pews and run outdoors, screaming &#8211; all except for two. One is the Pastor, the other is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}