{"id":2857,"date":"2015-01-14T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:21:07","slug":"hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike McGovern, a writer, objected to having a destructive hurricane named after his sweet niece, Emily. So in next day&#8217;s NY Times, he submitted the following list of more appropriate hurricane names and how these storms might behave:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hurricane Clinton &#8211; Moves right, then left again<\/p>\n<li>Hurricane Powell &#8211; Heads directly for the White House<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Bush &#8211; Completely misses Middle America<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Perot &#8211; Small but annoying<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Dole &#8211; Eliminates roads, bridges and schools; spares only Kansas<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Madonna &#8211; Leaves clothes strewn everywhere<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Oprah &#8211; Gets smaller, then bigger again<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Wallace &#8211; Hard-hitting but lasts only 60 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Heidi &#8211; Blows the lid off Hollywood studios<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Jordan &#8211; Stops abruptly at its peak<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Dykstra &#8211; Devastates Atlanta and Toronto<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Foreman &#8211; Devours everything in sight<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Steinbrenner &#8211; Threatens to move towards New Jersey<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Trump &#8211; Uproots giant maples<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Obama &#8211; Never leaves the golf course<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike McGovern, a writer, objected to having a destructive hurricane named after his sweet niece, Emily. So in next day&#8217;s NY Times, he submitted the following list of more appropriate hurricane names and how these storms might behave: Hurricane Clinton &#8211; Moves right, then left again Hurricane Powell &#8211; Heads directly for the White House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1371],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funlists","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}