{"id":7729,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/getting-my-religion\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:56","slug":"getting-my-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/getting-my-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting My Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening service when she was startled by an intruder.  As she caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables, she yelled \u201cStop, Acts 2:38.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The burglar quickly turned around and pointed his gun at her when she yelled again \u201cStop, Acts 2:38.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, this time the man stopped, dead in his tracks.  The woman calmly called the Police and explained what she had done.  As the Officer cuffed the man to take him in, he asked him \u201cWhy did you just stand there?  All the old lady did was yell a Scripture to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScripture?\u201d the burglar exclaimed, \u201cI thought she said she had an Axe and two .38s!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<br \/>\n   From: Richard Woodall<woodie@ridgenet.net To: EMPCO1@qnet.COM><br \/>\n<EMPCO1@qnet.COM Date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 9:03 PM><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman had just returned to her home from an evening service when she was startled by an intruder. As she caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables, she yelled \u201cStop, Acts 2:38.\u201d The burglar quickly turned around and pointed his gun at her when she yelled again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,296,319,322,321,320],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}