{"id":461,"date":"2009-02-17T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-02-17T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T20:09:47","slug":"the-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2009\/02\/17\/the-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboy!<br \/>\nA successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted<br \/>\nwife.<\/p>\n<p>She was a very good-looking woman and determined to keep the ranch,<br \/>\nbut knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad<br \/>\nin the newspaper for a ranch hand.<\/p>\n<p>Two cowboys applied for the job. One was gay and the other a drunk.<br \/>\nShe thought long and hard about it, and when no one else applied she<br \/>\ndecided to hire the gay guy, figuring it would be safer to have him<br \/>\naround the house than the drunk.<\/p>\n<p>He proved to be a hard worker who put in long hours every day and<br \/>\nknew a lot about ranching. For weeks, the two of them worked, and<br \/>\nthe ranch was doing very well.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day, the rancher&#8217;s widow said to the hired hand, &#8216;You have<br \/>\ndone a really good job, and the ranch looks great .. you should go into<br \/>\ntown and kick up your heels.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The hired hand readily agreed and went into town one Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>One o&#8217;clock came, however, and he didn&#8217;t return.<\/p>\n<p>Two o&#8217;clock and no hired hand. Finally he returned around<br \/>\ntwo-thirty, and upon entering the room, he found the rancher&#8217;s widow<br \/>\nsitting by the fireplace with a glass of wine, waiting for him.<\/p>\n<p>She quietly called him over to her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unbutton my blouse and take it off,&#8217; she said. Trembling, he did<br \/>\nas she directed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now take off my boots.&#8217; He did as she asked, ever so slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Now take off my stockings.&#8217; He removed each gently and placed them<br \/>\nneatly by her boots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now take off my skirt.&#8217; He slowly unbuttoned it, constantly<br \/>\nwatching her eyes in the fire light.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now take off my bra.&#8217; Again, with trembling hands, he did as he was<br \/>\ntold and dropped it to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Then she looked at him and said, &#8216;If you ever wear my clothes into<br \/>\ntown again, you&#8217;re fired.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(I didn&#8217;t see it coming, either!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboy! A successful rancher died and left everything to his devoted wife. She was a very good-looking woman and determined to keep the ranch, but knew very little about ranching, so she decided to place an ad in the newspaper for a ranch hand. Two cowboys applied for the job. One was gay and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2009\/02\/17\/the-cowboy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cowboy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainmentfun","category-farm-life-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}