{"id":12363,"date":"2017-08-16T20:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2017-08-16T20:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:40:54","slug":"old-age-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12363","title":{"rendered":"Old Age at Its Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russ and Sam, two friends, met in the park every day to feed the pigeons, watch the\u00a0squirrels and discuss world problems.<\/p>\n<p>One-day Russ didn&#8217;t show up. Sam didn&#8217;t think much about it and figured maybe he had a cold or something.<\/p>\n<p>But after Russ hadn&#8217;t shown up for a week or so, Sam really got worried. However, since the only time they ever got together was at the park, Sam didn&#8217;t know where Russ lived, so he was unable to find out what had happened to him.<\/p>\n<p>A month had passed, and Sam figured he had seen the last of Russ, but one day, Sam approached the park and&#8211; lo and behold! &#8211;there sat Russ!\u00a0Sam was very excited and happy to see him and told him so. Then he said, &#8216;For crying out loud Russ, what in the world happened to you?&#8217;\u00a0Russ replied, &#8216;I have been in jail.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Jail!&#8217; cried Sam. What in the world for?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Well,&#8217; Russ said, &#8216;you know Sue, that cute little blonde waitress at the coffee shop where I sometimes go?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Yeah,&#8217; said Sam, &#8216;I remember her. What about her?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Well, the little gold-digging witch figured I was rich and she filed rape charges against me; and, at 89 years old, I was so proud that when I got into court, I pleaded &#8216;guilty&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The judge gave me 30 days for perjury.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russ and Sam, two friends, met in the park every day to feed the pigeons, watch the\u00a0squirrels and discuss world problems. One-day Russ didn&#8217;t show up. Sam didn&#8217;t think much about it and figured maybe he had a cold or something. But after Russ hadn&#8217;t shown up for a week or so, Sam really got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=12363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Age at Its Best<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12364,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions\/12364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}