{"id":128,"date":"2019-09-11T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/?p=128"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:18:24","slug":"uncle-pete-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2019\/09\/11\/uncle-pete-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Pete &#8211; A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seems Jeremy gave his nephew Andrew a box Magic Tricks as a Christmas present.  Andrew opened it up, and asked Jeremy to help him master some of the tricks.  Among the tricks was a miniature guillotine.<br>\nUncle Pete picked it up and decided to play with it. No sense in reading the directions, he was an adult, and this was a childs toy.  He set it on top of a box, stuck his pointy finger in the slot, raised his other hand high, and was about to smack the blade down.<br>\nJust before he did so, Andrew&#8217;s Mom shouted, &#8220;Uncle Pete! Maybe you should try it with a baby carrot first!&#8221;<br>\n&#8220;Pashaw!&#8221; Uncle Pete exclaimed.  &#8220;I know what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;<br>\nBut due to family pressure, he reluctantly replaced his finger with a baby carrot.<br>\nThen proceeded with his trick.<br><strong>WHOOOOP!<\/strong><br>\nDown came the blade.<br>\nAnd the two halves of the baby carrot flew to either end of the room.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems Jeremy gave his nephew Andrew a box Magic Tricks as a Christmas present. Andrew opened it up, and asked Jeremy to help him master some of the tricks. Among the tricks was a miniature guillotine. Uncle Pete picked it up and decided to play with it. No sense in reading the directions, he was &#8230; <a title=\"Uncle Pete &#8211; A\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2019\/09\/11\/uncle-pete-a\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Uncle Pete &#8211; A\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncle-pete"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}