{"id":16758,"date":"2012-01-30T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=16758"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T11:22:18","slug":"safe-to-swim-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/01\/safe-to-swim-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe to swim here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft. Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted,&#8221;Are there any gators around here?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naw,&#8221; the man hollered back, &#8220;they ain&#8217;t been around for years!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.<\/p>\n<p>About halfway there he asked the guy,&#8221;How&#8217;d you get rid of the gators?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t do nothin&#8217;,&#8221; the beachcomber said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sharks got &#8217;em.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat.<\/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-16758","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\/16758","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=16758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}