{"id":756,"date":"2012-06-03T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/03\/the-dead-parrot\/"},"modified":"2012-06-03T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T10:57:05","slug":"the-dead-parrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/03\/the-dead-parrot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Parrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nAt dawn the telephone rings, &quot;Hello, Senor Kent? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Kent, that your parrot, he is dead&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Si, Senor, that&#8217;s the one.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Damn! That&#8217;s a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;From eating the rotten meat, Senor Kent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Nobody, Senor . He ate the meat of the dead horse.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Dead horse? What dead horse?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;The thoroughbred, Senor Kent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;My prize thoroughbred is dead?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Yes, Senor Kent, he died from all that work pulling the water cart.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Are you insane? What water cart?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;The one we used to put out the fire, Senor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Good Lord! What fire are you talking about, man?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;The one at your house, Senor Kent! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;What the hell? Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a candle?!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Yes, Senor Kent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;But there&#8217;s electricity at the house! What was the candle for?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;For the funeral, Senor Kent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!&quot;<br \/>\n\t&quot;Your wife&#8217;s, Senor Kent&quot;. She showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I shot her with your new Kreighoff Limited Edition Custom Gold Engraved Sporting Clays Special with the custom Wangi Exhibition Grade Stock with the ISIS Recoil Reduction System.<\/p>\n<p>\tSILENCE&#8230; LONG SILENCE&#8230;VERY LONG SILENCE.<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;Ernesto, if you scratched that shotgun,<br \/>\n\tyou&#8217;re in deep shit.&quot;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> NofieldFive on June 3, 2012, 2:54 pm<\/p>\n<div>\ud83d\ude06  \ud83d\ude06  \ud83d\ude06<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dawn the telephone rings, &quot;Hello, Senor Kent? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house.&quot; &quot;Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?&quot; &quot;Um, I am just calling to advise you, Senor Kent,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}