{"id":29772,"date":"2013-08-26T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=29772"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:10","slug":"matter-of-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/08\/matter-of-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter of Fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple go on holiday to a fishing resort in northern Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>The husband likes to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife likes to read.<\/p>\n<p>One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap.<\/p>\n<p>Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and continues to read her book.<\/p>\n<p>Along comes a game warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, &#8220;Good morning Ma&#8217;am. What are you doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading a book,&#8221; she replies (thinking it was obvious).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re in a restricted fishing area&#8221; he informs her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry officer, but I&#8217;m not fishing, I am reading&#8221; she replies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, but you have all the equipment. I&#8217;ll have to take you in and write you up&#8221; the warden says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you do that, I&#8217;ll have to charge you with sexual assault&#8221; says the woman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I haven&#8217;t even touched you!&#8221; says the game warden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s true, but you have all the equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple go on holiday to a fishing resort in northern Minnesota.<\/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-29772","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\/29772","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=29772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}