{"id":108287,"date":"2018-04-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=108287"},"modified":"2018-03-27T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T14:39:29","slug":"explaining-to-a-blind-person-jokes-to-be-taken-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/04\/explaining-to-a-blind-person-jokes-to-be-taken-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining to a Blind Person [Jokes to Be Taken Seriously]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party:\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Einstein thought for a while and then he said, &#8220;I am very sorry, it is not really possible to explain relativity theory so quickly, but I will at least try to explain you why not.<\/p>\n<p>Once I went for a walk with a blind man on a warm summer afternoon.\u00a0 After a while we came to a restaurant and sat down at a table.\u00a0 I asked him, &#8216;Would you like a glass of milk?&#8217; \u00a0&#8216;I know what a glass is,&#8217; the blind man said, &#8216;but what is milk?&#8217;\u00a0 &#8216;Milk is a white fluid,&#8217; I replied.\u00a0 &#8216;Aha, I know what a fluid is,&#8217; he said, &#8216;but what is white?&#8217;\u00a0 &#8216;White is the color of swans,&#8217; I explained to him.\u00a0 &#8216;I know what a color is, but what are swans?&#8217;\u00a0 &#8216;Swans are big birds with a crooked neck.&#8217;\u00a0 &#8216;Oh, birds,&#8217; the man exclaimed, &#8216;I have heard of birds.<\/p>\n<p>And what is crooked?&#8217;\u00a0 I took his arm, stretched it and said, &#8216;This is straight,&#8217; then I bent it and said, &#8216;and this is crooked.&#8217;\u00a0 The man&#8217;s face turned into a happy smile and he said, &#8216;Now I finally know what milk is.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked Albert Einstein at a party:  &#8220;Oh, you are Albert Einstein, could you please explain me your relativity theory in three or four sentences?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108287","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\/108287","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=108287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108287\/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=108287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}