{"id":84716,"date":"2016-12-26T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=84716"},"modified":"2016-12-26T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T12:44:41","slug":"so-much-for-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/12\/so-much-for-understanding\/","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.<\/p>\n

In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.<\/p>\n

In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.<\/p>\n

In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.<\/p>\n

In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant.<\/p>\n

In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.<\/p>\n

In Latin America they didn’t know what “please” meant.<\/p>\n

And in Anglo America 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?” Not surprisingly, it was a huge failure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84716","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\/84716","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=84716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}