{"id":927,"date":"2007-09-21T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T05:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/09\/21\/priest-never-lies\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T05:21:46","slug":"priest-never-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/09\/21\/priest-never-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest Never Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A distinguished young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest sitting next to her, &#8220;Father, may I ask you for a favour?&#8221; &#8220;Of course. What can I do for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I bought an expensive woman&#8217;s electronic hair dryer for my mother&#8217;s birthday. It is unopened but well over the Customs&#8217; limit.And I&#8217;m afraid they&#8217;ll confiscate it. Could you carry it through the Customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to help you, my dear, but I must warn you: I will not lie.&#8221; &#8220;With your honest face, Father, no one will ever question you.&#8221; When they got to the Customs, she let the priest go ahead of her.<\/p>\n<p>The Customs officer asked, &#8220;Father, do you have anything to declare?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the top of my head down to my waist, I have nothing to declare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The officer thought this answer rather strange, so he continued to ask, &#8220;And what do you have to declare from your waist down to the floor?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a marvellous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roaring with laughter, the official said, &#8220;Go ahead, Father &#8211; &#8220;Next!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distinguished young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest sitting next to her, &#8220;Father, may I ask you for a favour?&#8221; &#8220;Of course. What can I do for you?&#8221; &#8220;Well, I bought an expensive woman&#8217;s electronic hair dryer for my mother&#8217;s birthday. It is unopened but well over the Customs&#8217; limit.And I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,4],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}