{"id":5008,"date":"2009-10-31T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2009\/10\/31\/mothers-regrettable-jokes\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:11:14","slug":"mothers-regrettable-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2009\/10\/31\/mothers-regrettable-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Regrettable Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IbPOz5dvLAI\/SuwBhBTTgNI\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/i6oB9bIQvZE\/s1600-h\/PB180106.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IbPOz5dvLAI\/SuwBhBTTgNI\/AAAAAAAAAzo\/i6oB9bIQvZE\/s400\/PB180106.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398691720107098322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mother Micaela\u2019s public speaking is, alas, dotted with jokes, when she sees the audience\u2019s eyes take on a glassy look, from too much educational talk.  Here are a few from her talk to parents:<\/p>\n<p>About Classics\/History \u2013 One Egyptian to another. <br \/>\u201cYou know that huge statue in the desert?  It\u2019s lost its nose.\u201d <br \/>Second Egyptian, \u201cLost its nose!  Then how does is smell?\u201d <br \/>First Egyptian, \u201cSmell!  It Sphinx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About Music:  The favourite musical instrument in England before the Norman Conquest was the Anglo-Saxophone.<\/p>\n<p>Q.  What would you like to be?<br \/>A   A School Teacher.<br \/>Q.  Are you crazy?<br \/>A .  I wasn\u2019t aware it was a qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Micaela\u2019s public speaking is, alas, dotted with jokes, when she sees the audience\u2019s eyes take on a glassy look, from too much educational talk. Here are a few from her talk to parents: About Classics\/History \u2013 One Egyptian to another. \u201cYou know that huge statue in the desert? It\u2019s lost its nose.\u201d Second Egyptian, &#8230; <a title=\"Mother\u2019s Regrettable Jokes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2009\/10\/31\/mothers-regrettable-jokes\/\" aria-label=\"More on Mother\u2019s Regrettable Jokes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convent-life","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}