{"id":396,"date":"2009-01-21T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=396"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T21:05:00","slug":"the-preachers-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/01\/21\/the-preachers-son\/","title":{"rendered":"The Preacher&#8217;s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another great one from Ernie:<\/p>\n<p>An old\u00c2\u00a0 country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession.\u00c2\u00a0 Like many\u00c2\u00a0 young men, the boy didn&#8217;t really know what he wanted to do, and he\u00c2\u00a0 didn&#8217;t seem too concerned about it. \u00c2\u00a0One day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to try an experiment. \u00c2\u00a0He went into the boy&#8217;s room and placed on his study table four objects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a Bible<\/li>\n<li> a silver dollar<\/li>\n<li>a bottle of whiskey<\/li>\n<li>a Playboy magazine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll just hide behind the door,&#8221; the old preacher said to himself. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;When he comes home from school this afternoon, I&#8217;ll see which object he picks up. \u00c2\u00a0If it&#8217;s the Bible, he&#8217;s going to be a preacher like me and what a blessing that would be! \u00c2\u00a0If he picks up the dollar, he&#8217;s going to be a businessman, and that would be okay, too. \u00c2\u00a0But if he picks up the bottle, he&#8217;s going to be a no-good drunkard, and, Lord, what a shame that would be. \u00c2\u00a0And worst of all, if he picks up that magazine he&#8217;s gonna be<br \/>\na skirt-chasin&#8217; bum.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe old man waited anxiously and soon heard his son&#8217;s footsteps as he entered the house whistling and headed for his room. \u00c2\u00a0The boy tossed his books on the bed, and as he turned to leave the room he spotted the objects on the table. With curiosity in his eye, he walked over to inspect them.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, he picked up the Bible and placed it under his arm. \u00c2\u00a0He picked up the silver dollar and dropped it into his pocket. \u00c2\u00a0He uncorked the bottle and took a big drink while he admired this month&#8217;s centerfold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord have mercy,&#8221; the old preacher disgustedly whispered . . .<br \/>\n&#8220;He&#8217;s gonna run for Congress!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Preacher's Son\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/01\/21\/the-preachers-son\"><span id=\"sample-permalink\">http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/01\/21\/<span id=\"editable-post-name\" title=\"Click to edit this part of the permalink\">the-preachers-son<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another great one from Ernie: An old\u00c2\u00a0 country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession.\u00c2\u00a0 Like many\u00c2\u00a0 young men, the boy didn&#8217;t really know what he wanted to do, and he\u00c2\u00a0 didn&#8217;t seem too concerned about it. \u00c2\u00a0One day, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,720,285,88],"tags":[1035,1337,1339,1336,132,1977,723,1338,869,1335,1334,753,256,257],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american","category-family","category-politics","category-priest","tag-bible","tag-bottle","tag-congress","tag-dollar","tag-ernie","tag-family","tag-pastor","tag-playboy","tag-preacher","tag-silver","tag-silver-dollar","tag-son","tag-whiskey","tag-whisky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}