{"id":45204,"date":"2026-05-21T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/?p=45204"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:28:45","slug":"when-faith-meets-a-bear-things-get-wild-%f0%9f%98%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/?p=45204","title":{"rendered":"When faith meets a bear\u2026 things get wild \ud83d\ude02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"77\">The priest arrived first, his arm in a sling and scratches across his face.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"251\">\u201cI found the bear by the river,\u201d he said proudly. \u201cI read passages from the Bible, sprinkled holy water on him, and after a long discussion\u2026 the bear accepted the faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"323\">Next came the minister, walking with a limp and covered in bandages.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"478\">\u201cIt was difficult,\u201d he admitted. \u201cThe bear chased me up a tree twice. But eventually, I sang hymns, shared my testimony, and baptized him in the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"597\">Finally, they heard a groan from outside. The rabbi was wheeled in on a hospital bed, wrapped head to toe in casts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"669\">The priest and minister rushed over.<br data-start=\"635\" data-end=\"638\" \/>\u201cWhat happened?!\u201d they cried.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"709\">The rabbi sighed painfully and said,<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"711\" data-end=\"779\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\u201cIn hindsight\u2026 maybe I shouldn\u2019t have started with circumcision.\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The priest arrived first, his arm in a sling and scratches across his face. \u201cI found the bear by the river,\u201d he said proudly. \u201cI read passages from the Bible, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45206,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45204\/revisions\/45206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesaddairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}