{"id":16752,"date":"2012-01-09T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=16752"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:19:27","slug":"wanna-buy-a-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/01\/wanna-buy-a-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna buy a frog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender, &#8220;If I show you a really good trick, will you give me a free drink?&#8221; The bartender considers it, then agrees. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny rat. He reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a tiny piano. The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues.<\/p>\n<p>After the man finished his drink, he asked the bartender, &#8220;If I show you an even better trick, will you give me free drinks for the rest of the evening?&#8221; The bartender agrees, thinking that no trick could possibly be better than the first. The man reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny rat. He reaches into his other pocket and pulls out a tiny piano. The rat stretches, cracks his knuckles, and proceeds to play the blues. The man reaches into another pocket and pulls out a small bullfrog, who begins to sing along with the rat&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<p>While the man is enjoying his beverages, a stranger confronts him and offers him $100,000.00 for the bullfrog. &#8220;Sorry,&#8221; the man replies, &#8220;he&#8217;s not for sale.&#8221; The stranger increases the offer to $250,000.00 cash up front. &#8220;No,&#8221; he insists, &#8220;he&#8217;s not for sale.&#8221; The stranger again increases the offer, this time to $500,000.00 cash. The man finally agrees, and turns the frog over to the stranger in exchange for the money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you insane?&#8221; the bartender demanded. &#8220;That frog could have been worth millions to you, and you let him go for a mere $500,000!&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about it.&#8221; the man answered. &#8220;The frog was really nothing special. You see, the rat&#8217;s a ventriloquist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender, &#8220;If I show you a really good trick, will you give me a free drink?&#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-16752","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\/16752","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=16752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}