{"id":13314,"date":"2011-07-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:31:22","slug":"a-boy-and-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/07\/a-boy-and-his-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy and His Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old boy went into a grocery store and picked out a large box of laundry detergent. The grocer walked over and asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do. &#8220;Oh, no laundry,&#8221; the boy said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to wash my dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you shouldn&#8217;t use this to wash your dog,&#8221; said the grocer. &#8220;It&#8217;s very powerful and if you wash your dog in this, he&#8217;ll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him.&#8221; But the boy was not to be stopped and carried the detergent to the counter and paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, the boy was back in the store to buy some candy. The grocer asked the boy how his dog was doing. &#8220;Oh, he died,&#8221; the boy said. The grocer said he was sorry, but added, &#8220;I tried to tell you not to use that detergent on your dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, the boy replied, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it was the detergent that killed him.&#8221; &#8220;Oh? What was it then?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was the spin cycle!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old boy went into a grocery store and picked out a large box of laundry detergent. The grocer walked over and asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do. &#8220;Oh, no laundry,&#8221; the boy said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to wash my dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314","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=13314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}