{"id":12336,"date":"2025-10-17T17:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:56:16","slug":"the-f-word-at-the-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=12336","title":{"rendered":"The F-Word at the Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Sunday, Harold skipped church to play golf with his buddies. It was a bright morning, the kind that makes you believe even the heavens might forgive you for missing a sermon.When Harold went to confession later that week, he looked genuinely guilty.\u201cForgive me, Father,\u201d he said. \u201cI used the F-word.\u201dThe priest sighed. \u201cThat\u2019s not good, Harold. Say three Hail Marys and watch your language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harold nodded, then hesitated. \u201cBut Father, don\u2019t you want to know why I said it?\u201dThe priest folded his hands. \u201cAll right, go on.\u201d\u201cWell,\u201d Harold began, \u201con the first tee, I hooked my drive way left into the trees.\u201d\u201cI see,\u201d said the priest. \u201cAnd that\u2019s when you swore?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harold shook his head. \u201cNo, Father. When I walked up, I found my ball sitting perfectly on the fairway \u2014 best lie I\u2019ve ever had in my life!\u201dThe priest smiled. \u201cAh, so you thanked God?\u201dHarold looked down. \u201cNo, Father. That\u2019s when my friend hit his ball\u2026 and it landed right on top of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, Harold skipped church to play golf with his buddies. It was a bright morning, the kind that makes you believe even the heavens might forgive&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":1152,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38734,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336\/revisions\/38734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}