{"id":8164,"date":"2026-02-07T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:48:10","slug":"accepted-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8164","title":{"rendered":"Accepted Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"156\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f99c.svg\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd9c\" \/>\u00a0The Praying Parrots Joke<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"283\">A woman went to her priest and said, \u201cFather, I have a problem. My two parrots only know how to say one embarrassing phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"314\">\u201cWhat do they say?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"377\">\u201cThey keep saying, \u2018Hi, want to have some fun?\u2019\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"540\">The priest said, \u201cThat won\u2019t do at all! But I have two parrots who only pray and read the Bible. Bring yours over, and maybe mine can teach them better manners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"658\">So the next day, she brought her parrots over. The priest\u2019s birds were inside their cage, praying with rosary beads.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"660\" data-end=\"683\">She put her parrots in.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"740\">Immediately, they shouted, \u201cHi! Want to have some fun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"742\" data-end=\"760\">There was silence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"812\">Then one male parrot turned to the other and said:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"814\" data-end=\"879\">\u201cFrancis\u2026 put the beads away. Our prayers have been answered.\u201d\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f604.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude04\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u00a0The Praying Parrots Joke A woman went to her priest and said, \u201cFather, I have a problem. My two parrots only know how to say <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8164\" title=\"Accepted Prayer\">[&#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-8164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164","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=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8165,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}