{"id":641,"date":"2012-11-16T05:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:34:44","slug":"paraprosdokian-of-the-week-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/11\/16\/paraprosdokian-of-the-week-26\/","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>Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars but check when you say the paint is wet?<\/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. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars but check when you say the paint is wet?<\/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-641","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\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}