{"id":21838,"date":"2026-03-04T23:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=21838"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:25:36","slug":"a-married-irishman-went-into-the-confessional-and-said-to-his-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=21838","title":{"rendered":"A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, \u201cI almost had an affair with another woman. \u201cThe priest said, \u201cWhat do you mean, almost? \u201cThe Irishman said, \u201cWell, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped. \u201cThe priest said, \u201cRubbing together is the same as putting it in. You\u2019re not to see that woman again. For your penance, say five Hail Mary\u2019s and put $50 in the poor box.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_2477-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_2477-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_2477.png 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cThe Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box. The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box. He paused for a moment and then started to leave. The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, \u201cI saw that. You didn\u2019t put any money in the poor box! \u201cThe Irishman replied, \u201cYeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you, that\u2019s the same as putting it in!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, \u201cI almost had an affair with another woman. \u201cThe priest said, \u201cWhat do you mean,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21840,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21838\/revisions\/21840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}