{"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 reflect\u00ading on the sto\u00adry 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 turn\u00ading water into wine<\/a> and began to think about the amount of wine involved. I was try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out how to describe it to col\u00adlege stu\u00addents in a way they could visu\u00adal\u00adize eas\u00adi\u00adly.<\/p>\n<p>So what rep\u00adre\u00adsents lots of alco\u00adhol to a stu\u00addent? <\/p>\n<p>All in unison\u2013\u201ca keg!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what is the equiv\u00ada\u00adlent num\u00adber of kegs to the six stone jars Christ trans\u00adformed (or as a tongue-twister, how many kegs could Christ con\u00advert)?<\/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\">sim\u00adple inter\u00adnet search<\/a> helped me dis\u00adcov\u00ader that Jesus cre\u00adat\u00aded about 10 kegs of alco\u00adhol.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you ever need to know that.<\/p>\n<p>Best quote about the sto\u00adry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>Nympha pudi\u00adca Deum vid\u00adit, et erubuit<\/i> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/04467a.htm\">Richard Crashaw<\/a><br>\nThe mod\u00adest water, see\u00ading its God, blushed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best joke I know about turn\u00ading water into wine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDid you hear about the Bap\u00adtist dea\u00adcon who was dri\u00adving along when he was stopped by the local police. See\u00ading an emp\u00adty bot\u00adtle on the floor, the offi\u00adcer said, \u201cSir, have you been drink\u00ading?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo offi\u00adcer, just water,\u201d replied the smil\u00ading dea\u00adcon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why do I smell alco\u00adhol on your breath?\u201d asked the police\u00adman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPraise the Lord!\u201d shout\u00aded the dea\u00adcon. \u201cHe\u2019s done it again!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reflect\u00ading on the sto\u00adry of Jesus turn\u00ading water into wine and began to think about the amount of wine involved. I was try\u00ading to fig\u00adure out how to describe it to col\u00adlege stu\u00addents in a way they could visu\u00adal\u00adize eas\u00adi\u00adly. So what rep\u00adre\u00adsents lots of alco\u00adhol to a stu\u00addent? 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\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cStone Jars to Beer Kegs Con\u00adver\u00adtor\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}