{"id":331,"date":"2005-11-01T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2005\/11\/01\/time_for_a_joke\/"},"modified":"2005-11-01T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T11:55:00","slug":"time_for_a_joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2005\/11\/01\/time_for_a_joke\/","title":{"rendered":"

Time for a joke: Definition of Insanity<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coincidentally I received this joke in an email today:<\/p>\n

The Bathtub<\/h3>\n

During a visit to a private mental health facility a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.<\/p>\n

"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a big old fashioned bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."<\/p>\n

"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the spoon or the teacup."<\/p>\n

"No." said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug."<\/p>\n

(PS…..Your room will be ready shortly……)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coincidentally I received this joke in an email today: The Bathtub During a visit to a private mental health facility a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. "Well," said the Director, "we fill up a big old fashioned bathtub, then we offer a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}