{"id":1947,"date":"2015-06-24T02:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T02:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-06-24T02:47:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T02:47:53","slug":"the-priest-and-the-playboy-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-priest-and-the-playboy-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priest and the Playboy Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Playboy
Playboy – As Holy As Any Book?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the clerics car, which the housekeeper was cleaning,
\nA copy of Playboy was found,
\nShe assumed it was planted there by the alterboys as a prank,
\nAs a few of them had just been around.
\nShe was shocked, horrified, and disgusted,
\nSaid the filth to the priest she would have to show,
\nBoys claiming to be holy were anything but,
\nThis the priest was going to know.<\/p>\n

She ranted and raved, waved the magazine round,
\nOf huzzies with everything on display,
\nBut the priest was calm, and not angry at all,
\nHe invited the housekeeper to pray.
\nTo pray for the girls in the pictures
\nWould be seen as beautiful when there looks fade
\nBe happy in themselves, have enough to live
\nThe housekeeper looked at him, dismayed.<\/p>\n

The priest said, let us pray for the alterboys,
\nThank God for their healthy sense of fun,
\nAnd hope in their lives, they know true love,
\nAnd the heart of a good woman have won.
\nThank God they can see the beauty in His creation,
\nAbout lustful looks at magazines he wasn’t pushed,
\nIts natural for boys at their life\u00c2\u00a0 and time
\nEven if all of the girls are airbrushed.<\/p>\n

Pray they will see the beauty within,
\nThat lasts when looks have faded with age,
\nThat they will see girls are people, not things to be used,
\nSo prayed this wild old sage.
\nThere’s as much scripture in Playboy as in any holy book,
\nThough on appearance, its a book of sin…
\nNever did anyman kill another based upon,
\nOn its pages what was written within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the clerics car, which the housekeeper was cleaning, A copy of Playboy was found, She assumed it was planted there by the alterboys as a prank, As a few of them had just been around. She was shocked, horrified, and disgusted, Said the filth to the priest she would …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,376,446],"tags":[2111,2112,2108,2109,2110,2107],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","category-funny-poems-18","category-moral","tag-alterboys","tag-housekeeper","tag-playboy","tag-playboy-magazine","tag-prank","tag-preist","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-vp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":721,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-life-of-reillys-grandson\/","url_meta":{"origin":1947,"position":0},"title":"The Life Of Reilly’s Grandson","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd January 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Reilly was the name of my Granny Though Molly was not her name Of Reillys they were many So they were known of from where they came... 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