{"id":935,"date":"2008-01-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2008\/01\/joke-of-the-day-for-thursday-j.html"},"modified":"2008-01-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:00:00","slug":"joke-of-the-day-for-thursday-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2008\/01\/joke-of-the-day-for-thursday-j.html","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the Day for Thursday, January 3, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better computer programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they agree to hold a contest with God as the judge.<br \/>\nThey set themselves before their computers and begin. They type furiously for several hours, lines of code streaming up the screen.<br \/>\nSeconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. 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