{"id":39807,"date":"2014-02-17T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=39807"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:11:05","slug":"talking-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/02\/talking-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter: &#8220;Mother, what is an &#8216;extra&#8217; in the theater?&#8221; Mother explains, &#8220;This is someone on stage who does not talk.&#8221; Daughter: &#8220;That would be a perfect role for our father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A boy comes home from school and proudly tells his mother that he has been given a part in the school play. The mother says, &#8220;Wonderful, what part is it?&#8221; &#8220;The husband.&#8221; The mother frowns and says, &#8220;Go tell your teacher you want a speaking part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teacher asked, &#8220;Why do we call our language the mother tongue?&#8221; Lisa suggests, &#8220;Well, what has father got to say anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter: &#8220;Mother, what is an &#8216;extra&#8217; in the theater?&#8221; Mother explains,<\/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-39807","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\/39807","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=39807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}