{"id":17995,"date":"2019-08-27T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T01:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2019-08-31T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T22:16:43","slug":"fruit-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/08\/27\/fruit-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit on wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>As for this tropical fruit: it lived a long and happy life.<\/p>\r\n<p>When it retired, it faced a quandary: it loved its house, but it also loved to travel.<\/p>\r\n<p>In the end, it put wheels on the house and traveled all over the place, having many wonderful adventures.<\/p>\r\n<p>And that\u2019s the story of this old mango\u2019s rolling home.<\/p>\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n<p>Addendum a couple days later: it turns out that almost exactly three years before I wrote this post, I came up with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jed.hartman\/posts\/10210427609026462\">different joke with the same punchline<\/a>. I forgot that I had done that, until Facebook showed me the old post in its Memories feature.<\/p>\r\n<p>Also funny: Both times, I failed to remember that the song usually goes \u201cthis old man <em>came<\/em> [or comes] rolling home.\u201d The <i>goes<\/i> variant isn\u2019t entirely unknown, but <i>came<\/i> and <i>comes<\/i> are far more common, going by TSOR.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18000,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions\/18000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}