{"id":612,"date":"2009-06-13T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=612"},"modified":"2009-06-13T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:07:18","slug":"how-to-get-to-heaven-from-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2009\/06\/13\/how-to-get-to-heaven-from-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get to Heaven from Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great one from Edel:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I was testing children in my Dublin Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I asked them, &#8216;If I sold my house and my car, had a big jumble sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven?&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;NO!&#8217; the children answered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the garden, and kept everything tidy, would that get me into heaven?&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, the answer was &#8216;No!&#8217; By now I was starting to smile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Well, then, if I was kind to animals and gave sweeties to all the children,<br \/>\nand loved my husband, would that get me into heaven?&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Again, they all answered &#8216;No!&#8217;. I was just bursting with pride for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I continued, &#8216; Then how can I get into heaven?&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A six year-old boy shouted out <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; color: black; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black; font-weight: bold;\" lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;YUV GOTTA BE FuKN&#8217; DEAD&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great one from Edel: I was testing children in my Dublin Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven. I asked them, &#8216;If I sold my house and my car, had a big jumble sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1736,3,471,318],"tags":[1951,950,1443,658,1981,40,532,18,64,1737,1970,1740,1954,1739],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heaven-religion","category-irish","category-kids","category-religion","tag-animals","tag-candy","tag-chapel","tag-church","tag-dead","tag-edel","tag-garden","tag-heaven","tag-ireland","tag-jumble-sale","tag-kids","tag-pride","tag-school","tag-sweeties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}