{"id":263169,"date":"2024-06-03T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=263169"},"modified":"2024-05-27T09:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T08:05:24","slug":"sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/06\/sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men, selling bibles door to door, bet who will sell the most in a day. They meet at end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The first man sold 2 bibles. The second sold 3. But the third man, who had a terrible stutter, says hhhee hhhee sssold 60.<\/p>\n<p>The other two, very surprised, asked how he did it.<\/p>\n<p>He said<em>, &#8220;Wwwhen Iiiii nnnnnnknock aaaat thththe ddddooor, I say: Do you wwwwwant tto bbbuy a bbbbbible ooooorrr shshshould Iiii jjjust rrrread it tttto yyyyou?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dieter-dietrich-fischer-epu.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-68323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dieter-dietrich-fischer-epu-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. Fischer was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University 1986-88, has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities, and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men, selling bibles door to door, bet who will sell the most in a day. They meet at end of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-263169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week","tag-joke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263169","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=263169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263170,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263169\/revisions\/263170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}