{"id":881,"date":"2007-08-01T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T06:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/08\/01\/news-24x7-effect\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T06:07:50","slug":"news-24x7-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/08\/01\/news-24x7-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"News @ 24X7 Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM.  He sat down next to this blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 10:00 news was on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a large building preparing to jump.<\/p>\n<p>The blonde looked at Tom and said, &#8220;Do you think he&#8217;ll jump?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Tom says, &#8220;You know, I bet he&#8217;ll jump.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The blond replied, &#8220;Well, I bet he won&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tom placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re on!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death.  The blond was very upset and handed her $20 to Tom, saying, &#8220;Fair&#8217;s fair.  Here&#8217;s your money.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Tom replied, &#8220;I can&#8217;t take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5 o&#8217;clock news and so I knew he would jump.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The blond replies, &#8220;I did too; but I didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d do it again.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Tom took the money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. He sat down next to this blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 10:00 news was on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a large building preparing to jump. The blonde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,4],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}