{"id":24065,"date":"2026-08-28T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24065"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:57:31","slug":"the-priest-should-have-been-more-careful-with-his-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24065","title":{"rendered":"The Priest Should Have Been More Careful With His Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459-167x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459-167x300.webp 167w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459-572x1024.webp 572w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5459.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Priest Should Have Been More Careful With His Words<\/p>\n<p>A married man went into the confessional and said to his priest,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost had an aff@ir with another woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The priest said, \u201cWhat do you mean, almost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man said, \u201cWell, we got undre-ssed, cl*mbed into bed, and r*bbed together, but then I stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The priest said, \u201cR*bbing together is the same as put-ting it in. You\u2019re not to see that woman again.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFor your penance, say five Hail Mary\u2019s, and put $50 in the poor box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man left the confessional, said his Hail Mary\u2019s, and then walked over to the poor box.<\/p>\n<p>He paused for a moment, and then started to leave.<\/p>\n<p>The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw that, you didn\u2019t put any money in the poor box!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man replied,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you,\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the same as putting it in!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Priest Should Have Been More Careful With His Words A married man went into the confessional and said to his priest, \u201cI almost had an aff@ir&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24065","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\/24065","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=24065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24067,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065\/revisions\/24067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}