{"id":769,"date":"2005-02-08T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/02\/08\/read-the-signs\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:26","slug":"read-the-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/02\/08\/read-the-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I drive past a church I&#8217;m often amused by the signage.  Sometimes they are clearly clever on purpose; other times they are clever by accident.  Often they are funny.  My fianc&eacute; has wondered if anyone has compiled these in a book that ministers use for reference.  Tonight I stumbled across a site that answers the question, and that answer is: yes.  The site also has photos of signs submitted by various people.  Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forgive Your Enemies. It Messes With Their Heads.<\/p>\n<p>God So Loved the World That He Did Not Send a Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Staying in Bed Shouting O God! Does Not Constitute Going to Church.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart Is Not The Only Saving Place.<\/p>\n<p>Can You Hear Me Now?  How About Now?  &#8211;God<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Let Worries Kill You, Let the Church Help<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchsigngenerator.com\/churchsigns.php?page=1\">The Church Sign Generator<\/a> page.  You can also make your own signs there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I drive past a church I&#8217;m often amused by the signage. Sometimes they are clearly clever on purpose; other times they are clever by accident. Often they are funny. My fianc&eacute; has wondered if anyone has compiled these in a book that ministers use for reference. Tonight I stumbled across a site that answers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-humor","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12031,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}