{"id":3019,"date":"2015-01-17T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2015-01-17T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:22:47","slug":"brain-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"Brain Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man went to a doctor, and said he wanted to be able to get a job at the local Post Office, but unfortunately he was too smart. The doctor asked him his IQ, and when he gave a three-digit reply, the doctor told him that the procedure would have to involve the removal of over half of his brain.<\/p>\n<p>The man insisted, and since the doctor just happened to have a brand new laser device which could zap just the right portions of brain tissue, the operation was planned.<\/p>\n<p>The laser was hooked up to a computer which could monitor the man&#8217;s declining IQ on a nice bright LED display. The doctor threw the switch and the numbers began ticking off &#8230; 95, 94, 93, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the phone rang. It was the doctor&#8217;s wife. They gabbed for a few minutes, the doctor forgetting completely about his patient.<\/p>\n<p>When he hung up, he suddenly realized, and ran into the operating room, only to see the meter tick down &#8230;  6, 5, 4, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He ran to the machine and threw the on\/off switch, just as the laser was about to wipe out the last remnant of brain.  &#8220;Holy moley!&#8221; exclaimed the doctor, &#8220;What have I done? Speak to me. Say anything!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man looked at him and said, &#8220;I, George W. Bush, announce my candidacy for President of the United States&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man went to a doctor, and said he wanted to be able to get a job at the local Post Office, but unfortunately he was too smart. The doctor asked him his IQ, and when he gave a three-digit reply, the doctor told him that the procedure would have to involve the removal of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[271,710],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-brain-surgery","tag-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","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=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}