{"id":273340,"date":"2024-09-09T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=273340"},"modified":"2024-09-09T07:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T06:22:10","slug":"two-for-the-road-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/two-for-the-road-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Two for the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An armed robber held up a convenience store. The quick-thinking store clerk asked if he could make a short call to his wife, and the robber agreed. Luckily, the woman at &#8220;911&#8221; who handled the call didn&#8217;t take offense at being called &#8220;Honey,&#8221; and dispatched a police squad to the store. In an interview with the media, the criminal was quoted as saying, &#8220;You just can&#8217;t trust anyone anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****************************<\/p>\n<p>The boss has on his desk a toaster, a radio, a TV, a fan and a typewriter. He says to an attractive young lady applying for a secretarial job: &#8220;Before we can hire you, there is a little test: which one of those items is the typewriter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><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><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dietrich-fischer.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-65349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dietrich-fischer-150x150.jpg\" 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>An armed robber held up a convenience store.<\/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-273340","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\/273340","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=273340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273341,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273340\/revisions\/273341"}],"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=273340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}