{"id":721,"date":"2014-08-28T21:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=721"},"modified":"2014-08-28T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T02:54:46","slug":"bet-paraprosdokian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/721","title":{"rendered":"I bet you don&#8217;t know what a Paraprosdokian is. . . . :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the second part causes the reader to reinterpret the first half. It is quite hilarious. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.<\/li>\n<li>War does not determine who is right &#8211; only who is left.<\/li>\n<li>Some people are like Slinkies. . . . not really good for anything, but you can&#8217;t help smiling when one tumbles down the stairs.<\/li>\n<li>I used to be indecisive &#8211; now I&#8217;m not sure.<\/li>\n<li>Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.<\/li>\n<li>Light travels faster than sound. That&#8217;s why some people appear bright until they speak.<\/li>\n<li>I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. . . . not screaming and yelling like the people in his car.<\/li>\n<li>Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won&#8217;t expect it back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the second part causes the reader to reinterpret the first half. It is quite hilarious. Here are some examples: Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. War does not determine who is right &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-bD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}