{"id":7208,"date":"2026-01-17T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:20:10","slug":"the-priest-didnt-expect-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7208","title":{"rendered":"The Priest Didn\u2019t Expect This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Whispering firmly to the dying man, the priest said,<br \/>\n\u201cDenounce the devil. Tell him how little you think of his evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The dying man said nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The priest repeated the command. Still, silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Finally, the priest asked, \u201cWhy won\u2019t you denounce the devil?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dying man replied,<br \/>\n\u201cUntil I know where I\u2019m heading, I don\u2019t think I should aggravate anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Whispering firmly to the dying man, the priest said, \u201cDenounce the devil. Tell him how little you think of his evil.\u201d The dying man said <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7208\" title=\"The Priest Didn\u2019t Expect This\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}