{"id":493,"date":"2003-09-03T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=493"},"modified":"2003-09-03T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T10:12:00","slug":"guess-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-09\/493-guess-what","title":{"rendered":"Guess what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m STILL bored! (Well, it has only been a FEW minutes&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more Only in America... Nothing is funnier than the Truth!--><\/p>\n<ul><b>ONLY IN AMERICA&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<li>&#8230;can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do banks leave both vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won&#8217;t miss a call from someone we didn&#8217;t want to talk to in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do we use the word &#8216;politics&#8217; to describe the process so well: &#8216;Poli&#8217; in Latin meaning &#8216;many&#8217; and &#8216;tics&#8217; meaning &#8216;bloodsucking creatures&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m STILL bored! (Well, it has only been a FEW minutes&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}