{"id":7227,"date":"2014-04-09T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/04\/09\/redneck-lent\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T03:32:00","slug":"redneck-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/04\/09\/redneck-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Redneck Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nEach Friday night after work, Bubba would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a venison steak.<\/p>\n<p>\tBut, all of Bubba&#8217;s neighbors were Catholic. And since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating meat on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe delicious aroma from the grilled venison steaks was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their priest.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Priest came to visit Bubba, and suggested that he become a Catholic. After several classes and much study, Bubba attended Mass&#8230;and as the priest sprinkled holy water over him, he said, &#8216;You were born a Baptist, and raised a Baptist, but now you are a Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>\tBubba&#8217;s neighbors were greatly relieved, until Friday night arrived, and the wonderful aroma of grilled venison filled the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Priest was called immediately by the neighbors, and, as he rushed into Bubba&#8217;s yard, clutching a rosary and prepared to scold him, he stopped and watched in amazement.<\/p>\n<p>\tThere stood Bubba, clutching a small bottle of holy water which he carefully sprinkled over the grilling meat and chanted: You wuz born a deer, you wuz raised a deer, but now you is a catfish.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday night after work, Bubba would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a venison steak. But, all of Bubba&#8217;s neighbors were Catholic. And since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating meat on Friday. The delicious aroma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}