{"id":15581,"date":"2026-09-21T07:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=15581"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:27:08","slug":"the-church-was-trying-to-raise-some-extra-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=15581","title":{"rendered":"The church was trying to raise some extra funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Sunday morning, the pastor announced that the church was trying to raise some extra funds and asked everyone to give whatever they felt led to give.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added, \u201cAnd whoever gives the largest offering today will get to choose three hymns.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the ushers brought the plate back, the pastor spotted a $1,000 bill. His jaw nearly hit the floor. Delighted, he told the congregation he wanted to personally thank the generous donor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sweet elderly lady in the last row slowly lifted her hand. Smiling, the pastor invited her to come forward and praised her kindness.<br \/>\n\u201cNow,\u201d he said, \u201cas promised \u2014 you get to select any three hymns you want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her eyes sparkled as she looked around the church.<br \/>\nShe pointed at three of the best-looking men in the room and cheerfully said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll take him, him, and him!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Sunday morning, the pastor announced that the church was trying to raise some extra funds and asked everyone to give whatever they felt led<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-and-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15583,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions\/15583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}