{"id":976,"date":"2007-11-01T13:12:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T07:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/11\/01\/parent-style\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T07:42:05","slug":"parent-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/11\/01\/parent-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 48 years of marriage, an elderly Gujrati man in  Bombay calls his son in New York and says, &#8220;I hate to ruin your day  son, but I  have to tell you that your mother and I are getting a  divorce; 45 years of  misery is enough!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad, what are you talking about?&#8221; the son screams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t stand the sight of each other any longer,&#8221; the old man says. &#8220;We&#8217;re sick of each other, and I&#8217;m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Hong Kong and tell her!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the  phone. &#8220;Like heck they&#8217;re getting divorced,&#8221; she shouts,   I&#8217;ll take care of  this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She calls Bombay  immediately, and screams at the old  man, &#8220;You are not getting divorced.   Don&#8217;t do a single thing until I get there. I&#8217;m calling my brother back, and we&#8217;ll both be there tomorrow.  Until then, don&#8217;t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR??&#8221; and she hangs up.<\/p>\n<p>The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his  wife.  &#8220;Okay&#8221;, he says,&#8221;It&#8217;s all set. They&#8217;re both coming for Diwali and paying their own airfare!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 48 years of marriage, an elderly Gujrati man in Bombay calls his son in New York and says, &#8220;I hate to ruin your day son, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are getting a divorce; 45 years of misery is enough!&#8221; &#8220;Dad, what are you talking about?&#8221; the son [&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-976","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\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}