{"id":3584,"date":"2026-08-17T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2026-08-30T05:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T05:04:30","slug":"gods-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/gods-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Noah stepped from the ark onto dry ground and looked to the sky.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you, God, for saving me and my family and the animals.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy pleasure,\u201d said the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll release the animals right away to go out and repopulate the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVery good, Noah. But first, you must sacrifice one of every clean animal on the ark to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut why, God?\u201d asked Noah. \u201cWhy did you save them, only to have me kill them?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause the aroma of burning meat greatly pleases me,\u201d answered the Lord. \u201cAnd I haven\u2019t smelt a burnt offering for over a year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\">*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\">100-word micro-fiction, a Drabble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah stepped from the ark onto dry ground and looked to the sky.&nbsp; \u201cThank you, God, for saving me and my family and the animals.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cMy pleasure,\u201d said the Lord. \u201cI\u2019ll release the animals right away to go out and repopulate the world.\u201d \u201cVery good, Noah. But first, you must sacrifice one of every clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satire","tag-drabble"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Gods_Pleasure.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}