{"id":8586,"date":"2003-02-21T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T23:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/21\/comfy-pews\/"},"modified":"2003-02-21T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2003-02-21T23:56:37","slug":"comfy-pews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/comfy-pews\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfy pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><font color=\"#0000FF\">&lt;ANDY ROONEY VOICE&gt;<\/font><\/code><br \/>\nWhy is it that churches that have pews with the most padding also have kneelers<br \/>\nwith little or no padding at all? And why is it that churches with ascetic wooden<br \/>\npews have kneelers padded so that you could kneel for hours?<\/p>\n<p>Now the Principle of Law of the Conservation of Energy states: &#8220;The total energy<br \/>\nof any body or system of bodies is a quantity which can neither be increased<br \/>\nnor diminished by any mutual action of these bodies, though it may be transformed<br \/>\ninto any other forms of which energy is susceptible&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is there some kind of similar ecclesial &quot;Law of the Conservation of Padding&quot;<br \/>\nwhich would state &quot;If padding is used on the pews then less padding must<br \/>\nbe used on the kneelers and vice versa. The sum total of padding used in the<br \/>\nsystem can not be increased or diminished.&quot;<br \/>\n<code><font color=\"#0000FF\">&lt;\/ANDY ROONEY VOICE&gt;<\/font><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;ANDY ROONEY VOICE&gt; Why is it that churches that have pews with the most padding also have kneelers with little or no padding at all? And why is it that&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-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}