{"id":21102,"date":"2012-09-10T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21102"},"modified":"2012-08-27T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T09:51:55","slug":"the-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/09\/the-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"The Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger in a taxi tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him something.<\/p>\n<p>The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a large plate glass window.<\/p>\n<p>For a few moments everything was silent in the cab, then the driver said, &#8220;Please, don&#8217;t ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The passenger, who was also frightened, apologized and said he didn&#8217;t realize that a tap on the shoulder could frighten him so much, to which the driver replied,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry; it&#8217;s really not your fault at all. Today is my first day driving a cab. I have been driving a funerary coach for the last 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A passenger in a taxi tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him something.<\/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-21102","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\/21102","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=21102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}