{"id":1611,"date":"2007-12-19T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/19\/summary-of-life\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:02:56","slug":"humor-summary-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/19\/humor-summary-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor: Summary of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:<\/strong><br \/>\n1) No matter how hard you try, you can&#8217;t baptize cats.<br \/>\n2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don&#8217;t let her brush your hair.<br \/>\n3) If your sister hits you, don&#8217;t hit her back. They always catch the second person.<br \/>\n4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.<br \/>\n5) You can&#8217;t trust dogs to watch your food.<br \/>\n6) Don&#8217;t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.<br \/>\n7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.<br \/>\n8) You can&#8217;t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.<br \/>\n9) Don&#8217;t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.<br \/>\n10) The best place to be when you&#8217;re sad is Grandpa&#8217;s lap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:<\/strong><br \/>\n1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.<br \/>\n2) Wrinkles don&#8217;t hurt.<br \/>\n3) Families are like fudge&#8230;mostly sweet, with a few nu ts.<br \/>\n4) Today&#8217;s mig hty oak is just yesterday&#8217;s nut that held its ground.<br \/>\n5) Laughing is good exercise. It&#8217;s like jogging on the inside.<br \/>\n6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD<\/strong><br \/>\n1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.<br \/>\n2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.<br \/>\n3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can d o while you&#8217;re down there.<br \/>\n4) You&#8217;re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.<br \/>\n5) Its frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.<br \/>\n6) Time may be a great healer, but it&#8217;s a lousy beautician.<br \/>\n7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:<\/strong><br \/>\n1) You believe in Santa Claus.<br \/>\n2) You don&#8217;t believe in Santa Cl aus.<br \/>\n3) You are Santa Claus.<br \/>\n4) You look like Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUCCESS:?<\/strong><br \/>\nAt age 4 success is&#8230;not piddling in your pants.<br \/>\nAt age 12 success is&#8230;having friends.<br \/>\nAt age 17 success is&#8230;having a drivers license.<br \/>\nAt age 35 succes s is&#8230;having money.<br \/>\nAt age 50 s uccess is..having money.<br \/>\nAt age 70 success is&#8230;having a drivers license.<br \/>\nAt age 75 success is&#8230;having friends.<br \/>\nAt age 80 success is&#8230;not piddling in your pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can&#8217;t baptize cats. 2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don&#8217;t let her brush your hair. 3) If your sister hits you, don&#8217;t hit her back. They always catch the second person. 4) Never ask your 3-year old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}