{"id":14323,"date":"2011-09-12T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=14323"},"modified":"2011-09-07T03:26:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:26:43","slug":"against-our-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/09\/against-our-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Our Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rabbi, a Hindu and a lawyer are riding down the road when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Spotting a farmhouse they walk over and tell the farmer they need a place to stay the night while they wait for a tow. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got room in the house for two of you but someone&#8217;s gonna have to sleep in the barn.&#8221; says the farmer.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabbi says, &#8220;I&#8217;ve no problem with that, I&#8217;ll go.&#8221; He leaves. Five minutes later there\u2019s a knock on the door. The farmer opens the door and the Rabbi is there. He says, &#8220;Sir there is a pig in that barn; in my religion pigs are unclean, I cannot sleep under the same roof with a pig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu speaks up and says, &#8220;I have no problem with pigs I&#8217;ll go sleep in the barn.&#8221; He leaves. Five minutes later there\u2019s a knock on the door. The farmer opens the door and the Hindu is there. &#8220;Sir there is a cow in that barn; in my religion cows are sacred, I cannot sleep under the same roof with a cow.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer responds, &#8220;I&#8217;ll go sleep in the barn, I&#8217;ve got no religion.&#8221; He leaves.<\/p>\n<p>Five minutes later there\u2019s a knock on the door. The farmer opens the door and the pig and the cow are standing there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rabbi, a Hindu and a lawyer are riding down the road when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}