{"id":46353,"date":"2014-09-01T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46353"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:39","slug":"american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/09\/american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s begin by reviewing some American history. Who said &#8216;Give me Liberty, or give me Death\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Yuki, who had his hand up. &#8220;Patrick Henry, 1775,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Very good! Who said &#8216;Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth'&#8221;? Again, no response except from Yuki: &#8220;Abraham Lincoln, 1863.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The teacher snapped at the class, &#8220;Class, you should be ashamed. Yuki, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.&#8221; She heard a loud whisper: &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna puke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Who said that?&#8221; she demanded. Yuki put his hand up. &#8220;George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the first day of school and a new student named Yuki entered the fourth grade.<\/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-46353","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\/46353","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=46353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}