{"id":11425,"date":"2025-01-01T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2025-01-01T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:00:03","slug":"steering-into-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/?p=11425","title":{"rendered":"Steering Into Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A priest and a taxi driver both passed away on the same day and found themselves at the gates of Heaven, where St. Peter was waiting for them.<br \/>\n\u201cPlease follow me,\u201d St. Peter said to the taxi driver, waving his hand.<br \/>\nThe taxi driver followed obediently, and soon St. Peter led him to a massive mansion. It had everything one could imagine: an indoor theater, a heated pool, and even a personal golf course!<br \/>\n\u201cWow, thank you!\u201d said the taxi driver, astonished and pleased with his good fortune in the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>Then, St. Peter turned to the priest, who seemed anxious and excited to see where he\u2019d land. St. Peter led him to a small, run-down cabin. Inside was a creaky bunk bed and an old black-and-white TV with spotty reception.<br \/>\n\u201cExcuse me, but isn\u2019t there a mistake?\u201d asked the shocked priest. \u201cI was a PRIEST. I devoted my life to serving the church and spreading God\u2019s word.\u201d<br \/>\nSt. Peter nodded thoughtfully. \u201cTrue, but during your sermons, people fell asleep. When the taxi driver drove, everyone prayed!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A priest and a taxi driver both passed away on the same day and found themselves at the gates of Heaven, where St. Peter was waiting for&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11427,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions\/11427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutlife.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}