{"id":501,"date":"2007-02-05T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2007-03-04T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T06:35:17","slug":"one-sunny-day-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"One Sunny Day in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was forwarded to me today and I couldn&#8217;t resist it :)?? !<br \/>\nOne sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he&#8217;d been sitting on a park bench.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, &#8220;I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.&#8221; The Marine replied, &#8220;Sir, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn&#8217;t reside here.&#8221; The old man said, &#8220;Okay,&#8221; and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, &#8220;I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton&#8221;. The Marine a gain told the man, &#8220;Sir, as I said yesterday, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn&#8217;t reside here.&#8221; The man thanked him and again walked away.<\/p>\n<p>The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying &#8220;I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.&#8221; The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, &#8220;Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mrs. Clinton. I&#8217;ve told you already several times that Mrs. Clinton is not the President and doesn&#8217;t reside here. Don&#8217;t you understand?&#8221; The old man answered, <strong>&#8220;Oh, I understand you fine, I just love hearing your answer!&#8221; <\/strong><strong>The Marine <u>snapped<\/u> to attention, saluted, and said, &#8220;See you tomorrow, sir!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was forwarded to me today and I couldn&#8217;t resist it :)?? ! One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he&#8217;d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, &#8220;I would like to go in and meet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}