{"id":76,"date":"2008-11-11T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-11-11T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T00:14:30","slug":"humour-sub-prime-crisis-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Humour: Sub-Prime Crisis Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a Donkey from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the Donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, &#8220;Sorry son, but I have some bad News, the donkey died.&#8221; Chuck replied, &#8220;Well, then just give me my money back.&#8221; The farmer said, &#8220;Can&#8217;t do that. I went and spent it already.&#8221; Chuck said, &#8220;Ok, then, just bring me the dead donkey.&#8221; The farmer asked, &#8220;What ya gonna do with him?&#8221; Chuck said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to raffle him off.&#8221; The farmer said &#8220;You can&#8217;t raffle off a dead donkey!&#8221; Chuck said, &#8220;Sure I can Watch me. I just won&#8217;t tell anybody he&#8217;s dead.&#8221; A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, &#8220;What happened with that dead donkey?&#8221; Chuck said, &#8220;I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $998.&#8221; The farmer said, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t anyone complain?&#8221; Chuck said, &#8220;Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.&#8221; Chuck now works for one of the two remaining US Investment Banks.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philbaker.net\/blog\/5614?sf=&#038;st=&#038;l=0\">philbaker.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a Donkey from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the Donkey the next day. The next day he drove up and said, &#8220;Sorry son, but I have some bad News, the donkey died.&#8221; Chuck replied, &#8220;Well, then just give me my money back.&#8221; The farmer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}