{"id":5203,"date":"2013-09-22T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2013-09-20T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T08:06:54","slug":"22-september-2013-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/09\/22\/22-september-2013-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"22 September 2013 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man goes to the confessional and begins, &#8220;Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is your sin, my son?&#8221; the priest asks back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; the man starts, &#8220;I used some horrible language this week and I feel absolutely terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When did you use this awful language?&#8221; asks the priest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was golfing and hit an incredible drive that looked like it was going to go over 250 yards, but it struck a phone line that was hanging over the fairway and fell straight down to the ground after going only about 100 yards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that when you swore?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Father,&#8221; says the man. &#8220;After that, a squirrel ran out of the bushes and grabbed my ball in its mouth, and began to run away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that when you swore?&#8221; asks the priest again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, no,&#8221; says the man. &#8220;You see, as the squirrel was running, an eagle came down out of the sky, grabbed the squirrel in his talons and began to fly away!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that when you swore?&#8221; asks the amazed priest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, not yet,&#8221; the man replies. &#8220;As the eagle carried the squirrel away in his claws, it flew toward the green. As it passed over a bit of forest near the green, the squirrel dropped my ball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you swear then?&#8221; asks the now impatient priest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, because as the ball fell it struck a tree, bounced through some bushes, careened off a big rock, rolled through a sand trap onto the green, and stopped within six inches of the hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The priest sighs. &#8220;You missed the putt, didn&#8217;t you?&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An old man went to the doctor complaining of a terrible pain in his leg. \u201cI am afraid it\u2019s just old age,\u201d said the doctor, \u201cthere is nothing we can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat can\u2019t be,\u201d fumed the old man, \u201cyou don\u2019t know what you are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you possibly know I am wrong?\u201d countered the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell it\u2019s quite obvious,\u201d the old man replied, \u201cmy other leg is fine, and it\u2019s the exact same age!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I was waiting tables at a country club when an elegantly dressed woman spilled Manhattan clam chowder all over her white linen skirt. She began furiously dabbing at it with a napkin. Having plenty of experience with getting out food stains, I asked, &#8220;Can I bring you some club soda?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Young lady,&#8221; she barked, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be the judge of when I&#8217;ve had enough to drink. Bring me another martini!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man goes to the confessional and begins, &#8220;Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.&#8221; &#8220;What is your sin, my son?&#8221; the priest asks back. &#8220;Well,&#8221; the man starts, &#8220;I used some horrible language this week and I feel absolutely terrible.&#8221; &#8220;When did you use this awful language?&#8221; asks the priest. &#8220;I was golfing and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/09\/22\/22-september-2013-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;22 September 2013 &#8211; Amusements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-1lV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}