{"id":5478,"date":"2010-05-24T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2010-05-24T00:26:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T22:26:44","slug":"so-much-for-%e2%80%98understanding%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/05\/so-much-for-%e2%80%98understanding%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much for \u2018Understanding\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” Not surprisingly, it was a huge failure.\u00a0 In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.\u00a0 In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.\u00a0 In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.\u00a0 In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant. In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.\u00a0 In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant. And in the USA they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UN. conducted a worldwide survey asking “Would you please give your honest opinion about the solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” <\/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-5478","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\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}