{"id":105751,"date":"2018-02-05T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=105751"},"modified":"2018-01-29T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:48:49","slug":"clever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/02\/clever-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush was informed that there was a threat of a bird flu epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>So he ordered to bomb Turkey and the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>**********************************<\/p>\n<p>A man went to a pawn shop in San Francisco and discovered a brass rat that intrigued him.\u00a0 He asked the store owner how much it cost.<\/p>\n<p>The owner said, &#8220;With the story 100 dollars; without the story 10 dollars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take it without the story,&#8221; the man said.<\/p>\n<p>As he walked out of the store with the brass rat in his hands, all the rats in town came out of basements and sewers and followed him.\u00a0 He walked towards the boardwalk and threw the brass rat into the ocean.\u00a0 All the rats that had followed him followed the brass rat and jumped into the ocean.\u00a0 He went back to the pawn shop.<\/p>\n<p>The owner smiled and said, &#8220;I knew you would come back.\u00a0 You want the story!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man replied, &#8220;No, I am not interested in the story, but would you by any chance have a brass Republican?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush was informed that there was a threat of a bird flu epidemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}