{"id":4278,"date":"2011-08-10T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2011-08-10T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:39:57","slug":"the-best-monastic-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/the-best-monastic-order\/","title":{"rendered":"The best monastic order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/st-dominic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4301\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/st-dominic-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/st-dominic-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/st-dominic.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>This week was the feast day of St. Dominic, so I thought I would share a rather religiously nerdy joke I came across recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A Dominican and a Jesuit were arguing about whether the Dominicans or the Jesuits were more favored by God. Finally, they decided that the only one who could settle the matter was God. So they prayed, the heavens opened up, and a piece of paper came fluttering down. When they picked it up, this is what it said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> <em>My children,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><\/em><em>Please stop quarreling about such absurd and trivial matters.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><em> Sincerely,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><\/em><em>God, O.P.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(You&#8217;re welcome Jenna&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was the feast day of St. Dominic, so I thought I would share a rather religiously nerdy joke I came across recently&#8230; A Dominican and a Jesuit were arguing about whether the Dominicans or the Jesuits were more favored by God. Finally, they decided that the only one who could settle the matter was God. So they prayed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[325,324,323],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-dominican","tag-jesuit","tag-joke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}