{"id":142,"date":"2005-12-09T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=142"},"modified":"2005-12-09T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T14:05:08","slug":"there-were-these-two-fishing-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"There were these two fishing buddies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And every year they would fish together and catch each other up on events.<br \/>\nOne was a Catholic Priest and the other was a Jewish Rabbi.<\/p>\n<p>One year the Priest tells his buddy the Rabbi;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;There was a young fellow from my parish who just became a Priest.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAnd the Rabbi replied;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;Sure, sure, that&#8217;s nice. No big deal.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nYears later the Priest is telling his fishing partner;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;You know that young priest from my parish, well, you know he just became a Bishop.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAnd the Rabbi replied;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;Sure, sure, that&#8217;s nice. No big deal.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nSeveral years later and the Priest continues;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;You know that Priest from my parish that became the Bishop? Well now he&#8217;s become a Cardinal. Can you believe that?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAnd the Rabbi replied again;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;Sure, sure, that&#8217;s nice. No big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many years later and the Priest begins again;<br \/>\n<\/i><i><br \/>\n&#8220;You know that Priest from my parish who became a Bishop, then became a Cardinal. He&#8217;s now the Pope, isn&#8217;t that fantastic?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAnd the Rabbi replied again;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;Sure, sure, that&#8217;s nice. No big deal.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAt this point the priest can make no more, and explodes;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;Why do say that this, is it not a grand thing, this priest went from being a priest in my village to being the Pope, leader of the Christian faith. And you tell me this is not a big deal. What do you want him to be, Jesus Christ?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><br \/>\nAnd the Rabbi replies;<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\n&#8220;Why not? One of our guys made it!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Merry Christmas to all.<\/b> <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And every year they would fish together and catch each other up on events. One was a Catholic Priest and the other was a Jewish Rabbi. One year the Priest tells his buddy the Rabbi; &#8220;There was a young fellow<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=142\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There were these two fishing buddies&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,20,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-things","category-history","category-myths","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}