{"id":3577,"date":"2024-11-02T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2024-11-02T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:36:25","slug":"a-new-priest-has-a-hard-time-getting-used-to-the-secret-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"A new priest has a hard time getting used to the secret code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are into good jokes, this one will definitely make your day.<\/p>\n<p>There was this old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing to adultery. One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said, \u201cIf I hear one more person confess to adultery, I\u2019ll quit!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, everyone liked him, so they came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would say they had \u201cfallen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age.<\/p>\n<p>About a week after the new priest arrived, he visited the mayor of the town and seemed very concerned. The priest said, \u201cYou have to do something about the sidewalks in town.<\/p>\n<p>When people come into the confessional, they keep talking about having fallen. \u201dThe mayor started to laugh, realizing that no one had told the new priest about the code word.<\/p>\n<p>Before the mayor could explain, the priest shook an accusing finger at the mayor and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re laughing about. Your wife fell three times this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are into good jokes, this one will definitely make your day. There was this old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing to adultery. One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said, \u201cIf I hear one more person confess to adultery, I\u2019ll quit!\u201d Well, everyone liked him, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}