{"id":639,"date":"2012-11-09T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:34:30","slug":"paraprosdokian-of-the-week-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/11\/09\/paraprosdokian-of-the-week-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraprosdokian Of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Friend sent me a list of these. I thought it would be fun to share them.<\/p>\n<p>Paraprosdokians are phrases or sentences that lead us down the garden path to an unexpected ending.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Friend sent me a list of these. I thought it would be fun to share them. Paraprosdokians are phrases or sentences that lead us down the garden path to an unexpected ending. Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/11\/09\/paraprosdokian-of-the-week-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paraprosdokian Of the Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-paraprosdokians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}