{"id":586,"date":"2005-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanuera.com\/cmwp\/?p=586"},"modified":"2005-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"a-little-bit-of-paint-goes-a-long-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of paint goes a long way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span class=\"dropcap\"> G<\/span>ripped with Easter                            fervour, Prindiville and Sudla have this week indulged                            themselves in a little church redecorating. Their redoubtable                            DIY skills may be admired, not so much on the wall behind                            the altar where they focussed their attention, but in                            the paint splashes and smudges on the sacred Kiko carpet,                            and even, to Naoami Myers chagrin, outside the church                            on the Aboriginal Medical Service&#8217;s path and plants.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                         <\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Appropos of which, have you heard the one about the                            church painter?<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">                                                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"quote\">A painter had just finished painting                              the interior of a church and was getting ready to                              pack up and leave, when the parish priest came out                              and asked him to also paint the exterior. The painter                              agreed to do so, but soon realized that he did not                              have enough paint to finish the whole job. He also                              realized that if he thinned out what he had left he                              might just be able to do it. Anyway, he completed                              painting the outside of the church, when a sudden                              rain storm came out of the clear sky. The rain fell                              only on the church, washing away all the still wet                              paint, and a voice boomed out of the sky&#8230;. &quot;Re-paint                              you thinner!&quot;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"> Gripped with Easter fervour, Prindiville and Sudla have this week indulged themselves in a little church redecorating. Their redoubtable DIY skills may be admired, not so much on the wall behind the altar where they focussed their attention, but in the paint splashes and smudges on the sacred Kiko carpet, and even, to Naoami Myers chagrin, outside the church on the Aboriginal Medical Service&#8217;s path and plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morsels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}