{"id":7311,"date":"2004-04-26T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/26\/what-if\/"},"modified":"2004-04-26T18:09:24","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T23:09:24","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What If"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">&#8230; The appointed time that Jesus came into the world was during<br \/>\nmore modern times. Would St. Joseph have still been a carpenter? Might he have<br \/>\ntaught his adopted<br \/>\nson a<br \/>\ndifferent trade? Now his becoming a stock broker would obviously be unfair to<br \/>\nother stock brokers with his omni prescience. Walking on water might be a plus<br \/>\nin the pool cleaning business. He would also be a real good weather forecaster,<br \/>\nyet I doubt if during the hidden years he wanted to make himself<br \/>\nknown yet. Here are some other possible trades:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/primemovers.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"267\"> <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">A little theological humor courtesy based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/summa\/100203.htm\">St.<br \/>\nThomas Aquinas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jesuscleaners.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"256\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">He&#8217;s a natural for the cleaning business.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jesuscars.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"192\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Finally a used car dealer you can trust, but don&#8217;t try to lie on your credit application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; The appointed time that Jesus came into the world was during more modern times. Would St. Joseph have still been a carpenter? Might he have taught his adopted son&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}