{"id":203,"date":"2006-08-03T17:48:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T21:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/2006\/08\/03\/pleased-to-report\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T17:48:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T21:48:56","slug":"pleased-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Pleased to Report&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Senior Agents of the Humor Patrol has just captured a beauty. His (or her) identity must remain hidden since he (or she) might be at risk if his (or her) cover was compromised. Collecting, or stealing, jokes is a dangerous enterprise. <\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have not sent in your $100 amusement fee (and you know who you are), do so forthwith (or is it <em>fors wis<\/em>)&#8230; otherwise we may have to terminate your subscription and\/or flood the internet with embarrassing information about your past. <\/p>\n<p>Now that we have taken care of business, we can proceed to this week&#8217;s installment. <\/p>\n<p><em>For his birthday, little Patrick asked for a 10-speed bicycle. His father said, &#8220;Son, we&#8217;d give you one, but the mortgage on this house is $280,000 and your mother just lost her job. There&#8217;s no way we can afford it.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em>The next day the father saw little Patrick heading out the front door with a suitcase. So he asked, &#8220;Son, where are you going?&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>Little Patrick told him, &#8220;I was walking past your room last night and heard you telling Mom you were pulling out. Then I heard her tell you to wait because she was coming too. And I&#8217;ll be damned if I&#8217;m staying here by myself with a $280,000 mortgage &#038; no bike!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Senior Agents of the Humor Patrol has just captured a beauty. His (or her) identity must remain hidden since he (or she) might be at risk if his (or her) cover was compromised. Collecting, or stealing, jokes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-of-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}