{"id":48386,"date":"2014-10-27T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=48386"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:36","slug":"competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/10\/competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of school before summer, when all children were itching to go home and play, a teacher promised that those children who could answer her questions correctly could leave earlier.<\/p>\n<p>She asked, &#8220;Who said, &#8216;Four score and seven years ago&#8217;?&#8221; Johnny was about to say &#8220;President Lincoln,&#8221; but Mary in the first row said it faster and could go home.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher asked, &#8220;Who wrote, &#8216;There are certain inalienable rights, including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness&#8217;?&#8221; Johnny knew it was Thomas Jefferson, but Cindy said it faster and could go home.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher asked, &#8220;Who said, &#8216;The buck stops here&#8217;?&#8221; Johnny was about to shout &#8220;President Truman,&#8221; but again Liza in the front row said it first.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny mumbled angrily, &#8220;If only those women could keep their mouths shut!&#8221; The teacher turned around and asked, &#8220;Who said that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnny quickly replied, &#8220;President Clinton. Can I go home now?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of school before summer, when all children were itching to go home and play, a teacher promised that those children who could answer her questions correctly could leave earlier.<\/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-48386","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\/48386","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=48386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}