{"id":65,"date":"2011-07-19T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decarl.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-10-20T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:59:22","slug":"the-pilot-and-the-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"The Pilot and the Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who&#8217;s dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket and jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Peter addresses this cool guy, &#8220;Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guy replies, &#8220;I&#8217;m Jack, retired airline pilot from Houston.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saint Peter consults his list. He smiles and says to the pilot, &#8220;Take this silken robe and golden staff and enter the Kingdom.&#8221; The pilot goes into Heaven with his robe and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Next, it&#8217;s the priest&#8217;s turn. He stands erect and booms out, &#8220;I am Father Bob, pastor of Saint Mary&#8217;s for the last 43 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saint Peter consults his list. He says to the priest, &#8220;Take this cotton robe and wooden staff and enter the Kingdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a minute,&#8221; says the good father. &#8220;That man was a pilot and he gets a silken robe and golden staff and I get only cotton and wood. How can this be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up here &#8211; we go by results,&#8221; says Saint Peter. &#8220;When you preached &#8211; people slept. When he flew, people prayed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who&#8217;s dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket and jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Peter addresses this cool guy, &#8220;Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/?p=65\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decarl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}