{"id":1519,"date":"2011-07-11T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:36:03","slug":"the-seventeenth-chapter-of-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jokeslab.com\/jokes\/1519\/church-jokes\/the-seventeenth-chapter-of-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"The seventeenth chapter of Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minister wound up the services one morning by saying, &#8221;Next Sunday I am going to preach on the subject of liars.  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