{"id":3535,"date":"2012-08-12T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:16:41","slug":"12-august-2012-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2012\/08\/12\/12-august-2012-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"12 August 2012 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penny and I walked past a swanky new restaurant last night. &#8220;Did you smell that food?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Incredible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Being the nice guy I am, I thought, &#8220;What the heck, I&#8217;ll give her a treat.&#8221; So I turned and walked her past it again.<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>During a commercial airline flight a retired pilot was seated next to a young mother with a babe in arms.<\/p>\n<p>When the baby began crying during the descent for landing, the mother began breast feeding the infant as discreetly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot pretended not to notice and, upon disembarking, he gallantly offered his assistance to help with the various baby-related items.<\/p>\n<p>When the young mother expressed her gratitude, the pilot responded, &#8220;Gosh, that&#8217;s a good looking baby &#8212; and he sure was hungry!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat embarrassed, the mother explained that her paediatrician said that the time spent on the breast would help alleviate the changing pressure in the baby&#8217;s ears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And all those years,&#8221; the old captain said, suddenly looking terribly sad, &#8220;I just chewed gum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When I went to the doctor for my yearly physical, my blood pressure was high, my cholesterol was high, I&#8217;d gained some weight and I didn&#8217;t feel so hot. My doctor said that eating right doesn&#8217;t have to be complicated and it would solve my physical problems. He said, &#8220;Just think in colors. Fill your plate with bright colors of greens, yellows, reds, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, I went right home and emptied an entire bag of M&amp;Ms onto a plate, ate them and sure enough, I felt better!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny and I walked past a swanky new restaurant last night. &#8220;Did you smell that food?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Incredible!&#8221; Being the nice guy I am, I thought, &#8220;What the heck, I&#8217;ll give her a treat.&#8221; So I turned and walked her past it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-V1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}