{"id":285,"date":"2004-08-15T14:30:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/08\/15\/stone-jars-to-beer-kegs-convertor\/"},"modified":"2004-08-15T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T22:31:10","slug":"stone-jars-to-beer-kegs-convertor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/08\/15\/stone-jars-to-beer-kegs-convertor","title":{"rendered":"Stone Jars to Beer Kegs Convertor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reflecting on the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/cgi-bin\/bible?language=english&amp;version=NIV&amp;passage=John+2%3A1-11&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">Jesus turning water into wine<\/a> and began to think about the amount of wine involved. I was trying to figure out how to describe it to college students in a way they could visualize easily.<\/p>\n<p>So what represents lots of alcohol to a student?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All in unison\u2013\u201ca keg!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what is the equivalent number of kegs to the six stone jars Christ transformed (or as a tongue-twister, how many kegs could Christ convert)?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=gallons+per+keg&amp;sourceid=firefox&amp;start=0&amp;start=0&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8\">simple internet search<\/a> helped me discover that Jesus created about 10 kegs of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you ever need to know&nbsp;that.<\/p>\n<p>Best quote about the&nbsp;story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit<\/i> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/04467a.htm\">Richard Crashaw<\/a><br>\nThe modest water, seeing its God, blushed.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best joke I know about turning water into&nbsp;wine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDid you hear about the Baptist deacon who was driving along when he was stopped by the local police. Seeing an empty bottle on the floor, the officer said, \u201cSir, have you been drinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo officer, just water,\u201d replied the smiling deacon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why do I smell alcohol on your breath?\u201d asked the policeman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPraise the Lord!\u201d shouted the deacon. \u201cHe\u2019s done it&nbsp;again!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reflecting on the story of Jesus turning water into wine and began to think about the amount of wine involved. I was trying to figure out how to describe it to college students in a way they could visualize easily. So what represents lots of alcohol to a student?&nbsp; All in unison\u2013\u201ca keg!\u201d \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/08\/15\/stone-jars-to-beer-kegs-convertor\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cStone Jars to Beer Kegs Convertor\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-4B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}