{"id":5877,"date":"2005-06-01T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/01\/digging-joseph\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T00:58:13","slug":"digging-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/digging-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"> Jimmy Akin the other day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.org\/2005\/05\/burying_a_st_jo.html\">commented on the practice of burying St. Joseph upside down<\/a> in order to speed up intercession in selling of your house. Matthew at Shrine of the Holy Whapping <a href=\"http:\/\/holywhapping.blogspot.com\/2005_05_29_holywhapping_archive.html#111762976903628963\">concurred<\/a> that he &quot;always found this one a little too much even for my appetite.&quot; I also find this practice to be a little bit annoying (if not downright superstitious) as if St. Joseph needed to be coerced into intercession. I mean if you feel that this tactic would really work then why not threaten to break of a finger each week until the house is sold? Or perhaps suspend him in a vat of hot Wesson oil or attach tiny electrodes to the statue. Wouldn&#8217;t the Church&#8217;s prohibition against torture also apply to the threat of burying statues upside down to elicit selling of your house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Akin the other day commented on the practice of burying St. Joseph upside down in order to speed up intercession in selling of your house. Matthew at Shrine of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}