{"id":571,"date":"2007-03-13T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/13\/it-occurred-to-me-this-morning\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T08:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T14:09:25","slug":"it-occurred-to-me-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"It Occurred To Me This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve thought he&#8217;d surprise his wife with an anniversary gift.\u00a0 He went to the travel agency, and bought tickets for a sea cruise from his agent, Rajiv.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah was ecstatic.\u00a0 She&#8217;d always wanted to take a sea cruise.<\/p>\n<p>On the day they were supposed to sail, they went to the docks.\u00a0 A man in a turban took their ticket &#8211; and then ran up the gangplank, and, as Steve and Sarah looked on\u00a0dumbfounded, hoisted it.\u00a0 Other swarthy turban-clad men cast off the lines and fired up the engines.\u00a0 The ship set sail without Steve or Sarah (or any of the other passengers).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damn&#8221;, said Steve.\u00a0 &#8220;It was a Sikh ruse&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve thought he&#8217;d surprise his wife with an anniversary gift.\u00a0 He went to the travel agency, and bought tickets for a sea cruise from his agent, Rajiv. Sarah was ecstatic.\u00a0 She&#8217;d always wanted to take a sea cruise. On the day they were supposed to sail, they went to the docks.\u00a0 A man in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}