{"id":1216,"date":"2010-10-14T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/10\/joke-of-the-day--jesus-is-nobodys-pawn.html"},"modified":"2010-10-14T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:10:23","slug":"joke-of-the-day-jesus-is-nobodys-pawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/10\/joke-of-the-day-jesus-is-nobodys-pawn.html","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the Day— Jesus is Nobody’s Pawn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Duke<\/a><\/form>\n
“Everything
\nin my parents house is broken. We play chess, and there are six pieces
\nmissing. So, we replace them with pieces from my mom’s nativity scene.
\nWe’re playing chess with the Virgin Mary and goats and wise men, and my
\nUncle Earl cheats. It’s like: ‘Uncle Earl, that’s a pawn. You’re not
\nsupposed to move him backwards.’ ‘That’s the son of God, boy! You move
\nhim wherever the heck he wants to go.’ ” – Greg Warren<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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