{"id":336,"date":"2008-04-22T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/the-cowboy-at-heavens-gate\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T15:10:15","slug":"the-cowboy-at-heavens-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/22\/the-cowboy-at-heavens-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cowboy At Heaven&#8217;s Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly gates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/img\/McGrawHill\/atchitecture\/f0081-01.png\" alt=\"Ball Peen Hammer\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"180\" height=\"188\" align=\"right\" \/>&#8220;Have you ever done anything of particular merit?&#8217; St Peter asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I can think of one thing,&#8221; the cowboy offered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Once, on a trip to the Black Hills \u00a0in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young woman. I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn&#8217;t listen. So, I approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker, smacked him in the face, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the ground.&#8217; I yelled, &#8216;Now back off!! Or I&#8217;ll kick the crap out of all of you!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>St. Peter was impressed, &#8220;When did this happen?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Just a couple of minutes ago, &#8221; the man replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas cowboy appeared before St. Peter at the Pearly gates. &#8220;Have you ever done anything of particular merit?&#8217; St Peter asked. &#8220;Well, I can think of one thing,&#8221; the cowboy offered. &#8221;Once, on a trip to the Black Hills \u00a0in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of bikers who were threatening a young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}