{"id":1083,"date":"2012-07-06T23:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T04:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-07-06T23:41:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T04:41:40","slug":"talk-about-slow-to-get-the-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Talk about slow to get the punch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We start as kids to learn about jokes around the age of 4. I am sure as kid we&#8217;ve all told the joke &#8220;why did the chicken cross the road?&#8221; and when prompted we answer &#8220;to get to the other side.&#8221; I always thought of this joke in it&#8217;s simplest terms. The chicken had crossed the road. But today after about 28 years it was pointed out to me (by my husband) that there is also a darker joke hidden in that inocent kids joke. He said he had only just realized that the chicken had commited suiccide because he wanted to get to the &#8220;other side&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe it took me 28 years to finally get the joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start as kids to learn about jokes around the age of 4. I am sure as kid we&#8217;ve all told the joke &#8220;why did the chicken cross the road?&#8221; and when prompted we answer &#8220;to get to the other side.&#8221; I always thought of this joke in it&#8217;s simplest terms. The chicken had crossed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievements","category-insanity","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}