{"id":2981,"date":"2015-01-16T21:50:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2015-01-16T21:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:50:38","slug":"unclear-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"Unclear Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Examples of unclear writing (Sentences taken from actual letter received by Welfare Department in Application for Support..)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am forwarding my marriage certificate and six children. I had seven but one died which was baptized on a half sheet of paper.<\/LI>\n<li>I am writing the welfare department to say my baby was born 2 years old. When do I get my money?<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Jones had not have any clothes for a year and has been visited regularly by the clergy.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot get sick pay. I have six children. Can you tell me why.<\/li>\n<li>I am glad to report that my husband who is missing is dead.<\/li>\n<li>This is my eight child. What are you going to do about it.<\/li>\n<li>Please find for certain if my husband is dead. The man I am living with can&#8217;t eat or drink until he knows.<\/li>\n<li>I am very much annoyed to find that you have branded my son illiterate. This is a dirty lie as I was married a week before he was born.<\/li>\n<li>In answer to your letter, I have birth to a boy weighing ten pounds: I hope this is satisfactory.<\/li>\n<li>I am forwarding my marriage certificate and my three children; one of which is a mistake as you can see.<\/li>\n<li>My husband got his project cut off two weeks ago and I haven&#8217;t had any relief since.<\/li>\n<li>Unless I get my husband&#8217;s money pretty soon, I will be forced to lead an immortal life.<\/li>\n<li>You have changed my little boy into a girl. Will this make any difference?<\/li>\n<li>I have no children as my husband is a truck driver and works night and day.<\/li>\n<li>In accordance with your instruction, I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope.<\/li>\n<li>I want money as quick as I can get, so I have been in bed with doctor for two weeks and he doesn&#8217;t do me any good. If things don&#8217;t improve I will have to send for another doctor.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Smith worked for us for six months and when he left we were happy, we hope this help his caractor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examples of unclear writing (Sentences taken from actual letter received by Welfare Department in Application for Support..) I am forwarding my marriage certificate and six children. I had seven but one died which was baptized on a half sheet of paper. I am writing the welfare department to say my baby was born 2 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1514],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-play","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","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=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}