{"id":46978,"date":"2014-10-06T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46978"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:40","slug":"the-genie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/10\/the-genie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts. One day, the New Zealander was walking along the beach and found a bottle floating ashore. He opened it\u2011\u2011and a genie came out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The genie said, &#8220;Thank you very much for liberating me, I have been locked up in this bottle for hundreds of years. As a sign of gratitude, I will grant each of you one wish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The New Zealander said, &#8220;I wish I was home in Auckland with my family.&#8221; Swoop&#8230; the genie took him and he was sitting with his family at the dinner table, very happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The South African said, &#8220;I wish I was home in Durban with my family.&#8221; Swoop&#8230; the genie took him and there he was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Looking around, the Aussie said, &#8220;It is suddenly so lonely here. I wish my friends were back!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealander, a South African and an Australian were the only survivors of a shipwreck on a small South Sea island, surviving on coconuts.<\/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-46978","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\/46978","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=46978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}