{"id":581,"date":"2009-04-01T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddbenatar.com\/?p=581"},"modified":"2009-04-01T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T19:18:46","slug":"joke-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2009\/04\/01\/joke-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Joke of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This joke was nominated for best joke of the year.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, &#8220;Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The passerby says, &#8220;You are mistaken, I am a Mexican.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man goes on and encounters another passerby. &#8220;Thank you for having such a beautiful country here America .&#8221; The person says, &#8220;I not American, I Vietnamese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new arrival walks farther, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand, and says, &#8220;Thank you for wonderful America !&#8221; That person puts up his hand and says, &#8220;I am from Middle East .. I am not American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He finally sees a nice lady and asks, &#8220;Are you an American?&#8221; She says, &#8220;No, I am from Africa .&#8221;<br \/>\nPuzzled, he asks her, &#8220;Where are all the Americans?&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>The African lady checks her watch and says, &#8220;Probably at work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This joke was nominated for best joke of the year. A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, &#8220;Thank you Mr. American for letting me into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/2009\/04\/01\/joke-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joke of the Year&#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":[4,6,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersinternet","category-entertainmentfun","category-politics","category-societycommunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/toddbennetar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}