{"id":4155,"date":"2015-03-01T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2015-03-01T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:25:58","slug":"the-singing-parrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"The Singing Parrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days before Christmas, a man enters a pet store looking for a unique gift for his wife. The store manager tells him he has just what he&#8217;s looking for! A beautiful parrot named Chet that sings Christmas carols.<\/p>\n<p>He brings the husband over to a colorful but quiet bird. The man agrees that Chet certainly is pretty, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to be much for singing.<\/p>\n<p>The manager tells him to watch as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a lighter. The manager then clicks the lighter and holds it under Chet&#8217;s left foot. Immediately, Chet starts singing; &#8220;Silent Night, Holy Night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The husband is very impressed with Chet&#8217;s singing abilities and watches as the manager moves the lighter underneath Chet&#8217;s right foot. Chet now starts to sing &#8220;Jingle Bells, Jingle All the Way.&#8221; The husband says Chet is perfect and that he&#8217;ll take him. The husband rushes home to his wife and insists upon giving her this wonderful gift immediately. <\/p>\n<p>He presents Chet and starts to explain the parrot&#8217;s special talent. Demonstrating, he holds a lighter under Chet&#8217;s left foot and the bird sings &#8220;Silent Night.&#8221; He then moves the lighter under the right foot and Chet lets loose a round of &#8220;Jingle Bells.&#8221; The wife is absolutely impressed, and with a mischievous grin asks her husband what happens if he holds the lighter between Chet&#8217;s legs instead.  Curious, the husband moves the lighter between the bird&#8217;s legs, and the bird begins to sing&#8230;&#8221;Chet&#8217;s Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days before Christmas, a man enters a pet store looking for a unique gift for his wife. The store manager tells him he has just what he&#8217;s looking for! A beautiful parrot named Chet that sings Christmas carols. He brings the husband over to a colorful but quiet bird. The man agrees that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54],"tags":[1131],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-season","tag-parrot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}