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\"Jesus<\/p>\n

On Facebook, Scott Paeth shared this creative way someone in Chicago found of claiming a parking spot: conscripting Jesus and Mary (or is it Mary and Joseph, from a nativity set?) to indicate that the spot is taken. Who\u2019s going to argue with members of the holy family?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard\u00a0people pray to find a parking spot before, but this is the first time that I\u2019ve seen someone physically bring\u00a0figures of the ones they pray to in to get the job done.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Facebook, Scott Paeth shared this creative way someone in Chicago found of claiming a parking spot: conscripting Jesus and Mary (or is it Mary and Joseph, from a nativity set?) to indicate that the spot is taken. Who\u2019s going to argue with members of the holy family? I\u2019ve heard\u00a0people pray to find a parking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,165],"tags":[1776,5677,5920,7075,8734,11483],"class_list":["post-28555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-roman-catholicism","tag-chicago","tag-jesus","tag-joseph","tag-mary","tag-parking-spot","tag-snow"],"yoast_head":"\nJesus, Save Me a Spot!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Facebook, Scott Paeth shared this creative way someone in Chicago found of claiming a parking spot: conscripting Jesus and Mary (or is it Mary and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/02\/jesus-save-me-a-spot.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus, Save Me a Spot!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Facebook, Scott Paeth shared this creative way someone in Chicago found of claiming a parking spot: conscripting Jesus and Mary (or is it Mary and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/02\/jesus-save-me-a-spot.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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