{"id":104436,"date":"2000-04-01T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2000-04-01T11:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/?p=104436"},"modified":"2020-04-05T13:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T11:28:56","slug":"squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a small Ame\u00adri\u00adcan town, a band of squir\u00adrels had beco\u00adme quite a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Pres\u00adby\u00adte\u00adri\u00adan church cal\u00adled a mee\u00adting to deci\u00adde what to do about their squir\u00adrel infe\u00adsta\u00adti\u00adon. After much pray\u00ader and con\u00adside\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon, they con\u00adclu\u00added that the squir\u00adrels were pre\u00adde\u00adsti\u00adned to be the\u00adre, and they shouldn't inter\u00adfe\u00adre with God's divi\u00adne&nbsp;will.<\/p>\n<p>At the Bap\u00adtist church the squir\u00adrels had taken an inte\u00adrest in the bap\u00adti\u00adstery. The dea\u00adcons met and deci\u00added to put a water-slide on the bap\u00adti\u00adstery and let the squir\u00adrels drown them\u00adsel\u00adves. The squir\u00adrels lik\u00aded the slide and unfort\u00adu\u00adn\u00ada\u00adte\u00adly, knew instinc\u00adtively how to swim, so twice as many squir\u00adrels show\u00aded up the fol\u00adlo\u00adwing&nbsp;week.<\/p>\n<p>The Luther\u00adan church deci\u00added that they were not in a posi\u00adti\u00adon to harm any of God's crea\u00adtures. So, they huma\u00adnely trap\u00adped their squir\u00adrels and set them free near the Bap\u00adtist church. Two weeks later the squir\u00adrels were back when the Bap\u00adtists took down the water-slide.<\/p>\n<p>The Epis\u00adco\u00adpa\u00adli\u00adans tried a much more uni\u00adque path by set\u00adting out pans of whis\u00adkey around their church in an effort to kill the squir\u00adrels with alco\u00adhol poi\u00adso\u00adning. They sad\u00adly lear\u00adned how much dama\u00adge a band of drunk squir\u00adrels can&nbsp;do.<\/p>\n<p>But the Catho\u00adlic church came up with a very crea\u00adti\u00adve stra\u00adtegy. They bap\u00adti\u00adzed all the squir\u00adrels and made them mem\u00adbers of the church. Now they only see them at Christ\u00admas and Easter.<\/p>\n<p>And not much was heard from the Jewish syn\u00adago\u00adgue. They took the first squir\u00adrel and cir\u00adcumcis\u00aded him. They haven't seen a squir\u00adrel since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a small Ame\u00adri\u00adcan town, a band of squir\u00adrels had beco\u00adme quite a pro\u00adblem. The Pres\u00adby\u00adte\u00adri\u00adan church cal\u00adled a mee\u00adting to deci\u00adde what to do about their squir\u00adrel infe\u00adsta\u00adti\u00adon. After much pray\u00ader and con\u00adside\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon, they con\u00adclu\u00added that the squir\u00adrels were pre\u00adde\u00adsti\u00adned to be the\u00adre, and they shouldn't inter\u00adfe\u00adre with God's divi\u00adne&nbsp;will. At the Bap\u00adtist church&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1691"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.re-actio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}