{"id":3587,"date":"2015-01-25T19:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2015-01-25T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:29:54","slug":"the-hardware-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"The Hardware Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Polish man wants lunch, so he goes down to a place he knows of down the street, walks up to the counter, and says, &#8220;I want a<br \/>\nburger, some fries, and a chocolate shake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the counter says, &#8220;You must be Polish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guys says, &#8220;Oh, I can&#8217;t believe it! Everyone always knows,&#8221; and he storms out of the place. He vows that he is going to learn to disguise his Polishness if it&#8217;s the last thing he ever does.<\/p>\n<p>He goes to school to lose his accent. He goes to a fashion designer to have a whole new wardrobe designed for him. Then he goes to a finishing school to learn all the proper manners and how to behave in all circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months later the Polish man goes back to the same place and goes up to the same man at the counter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to start first with some vichyssoise,&#8221; he says, &#8220;then I&#8217;ll have some steak tartare, and then I think I&#8217;ll finish off with some fresh raspberries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the counter says, &#8220;You must be Polish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guy freaks out. &#8220;I just spent thousands of dollars on a wardrobe and finishing school! How is it that you always know I&#8217;m Polish?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because,&#8221; the man behind the counter says, &#8220;this is a hardware store.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Polish man wants lunch, so he goes down to a place he knows of down the street, walks up to the counter, and says, &#8220;I want a burger, some fries, and a chocolate shake.&#8221; The man behind the counter says, &#8220;You must be Polish.&#8221; The guys says, &#8220;Oh, I can&#8217;t believe it! Everyone always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53],"tags":[1176],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional","category-say-what","tag-polish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","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=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}