{"id":985,"date":"2007-11-30T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/11\/30\/tears\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T07:53:39","slug":"tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/11\/30\/tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in bed.<br \/>\nShe goes downstairs to look for him.<br \/>\nShe finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him.<br \/>\nHe appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.<br \/>\nShe watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; What&#8217;s the matter, dear?&#8221; she whispers as she steps into the room.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why are you down here at this time of night?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe husband looks up from his coffee,<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and you were only 18?&#8221; he asks solemnly.<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes I do&#8221; she replies. <\/p>\n<p>The husband pauses; the words were not coming easily.<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you remember when your father caught us in the garden?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes! I remember&#8221; said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.<br \/>\nThe husband continued.<br \/>\n&#8220;Do you remember when he showed the shotgun in my face and said,<br \/>\n&#8216;Either you marry my daughter, or I&#8217;ll send you to jail for 20 years?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I remember that too&#8221; she replied softly. He wiped another tear from his cheek and said, <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have been released today!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in bed. She goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he [&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-985","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\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}