{"id":17262,"date":"2012-02-13T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=17262"},"modified":"2012-02-07T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:25:33","slug":"a-pirate-at-the-local-bar-discusses-his-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/02\/a-pirate-at-the-local-bar-discusses-his-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pirate Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook, and an eye patch.<\/p>\n<p>The seaman asks, &#8220;So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?&#8221; The pirate replies, &#8220;We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit my leg off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow!&#8221; said the seaman. &#8220;What about your hook&#8221;? &#8220;Well&#8221;, replied the pirate, &#8220;We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Incredible!&#8221; remarked the seaman. &#8220;How did you get the eye patch&#8221;? &#8220;A seagull dropping fell into my eye,&#8221; replied the pirate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?,&#8221; the sailor asked incredulously. &#8220;Well,&#8221; said the pirate, &#8220;it was my first day with my hook&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook, and an eye patch.<\/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-17262","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\/17262","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=17262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}