{"id":23869,"date":"2024-12-30T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23869"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T15:05:52","slug":"joke-of-the-day-the-old-mans-brilliant-scheme-that-had-everyone-in-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23869","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the Day: The Old Man\u2019s Brilliant Scheme That Had Everyone in Stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old man, well into his golden years, picks up the phone one day and calls his son. With a solemn voice, he delivers what seems like devastating news:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, your mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His son, taken aback, shouts, \u201cDad, what are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old man sighs heavily and continues, \u201cWe can\u2019t stand each other anymore. I\u2019m tired of seeing her face, and I\u2019m done talking about this. Call your sister and let her know.\u201d Without waiting for a reply, he abruptly hangs up.<\/p>\n<p>Shocked and distressed, the son immediately calls his sister to relay the startling news. \u201cWhat? They\u2019re getting divorced?!\u201d she exclaims in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>Furious and determined, the sister wastes no time. She picks up her phone and dials their father. The moment he answers, she unleashes her outrage.<\/p>\n<p>You are NOT getting divorced!\u201d she yells. \u201cMy brother and I are flying home tomorrow to talk this through. Until then, don\u2019t call a lawyer or sign anything. DO YOU HEAR ME?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She slams the phone down, her anger evident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man, well into his golden years, picks up the phone one day and calls his son. With a solemn voice, he delivers what seems like devastating news: \u201cListen, your mother and I are getting divorced. Forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d His son, taken aback, shouts, \u201cDad, what are you talking about?\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23870,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869\/revisions\/23870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}