{"id":7250,"date":"2026-01-18T19:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:04:53","slug":"a-brilliant-move-by-the-old-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=7250","title":{"rendered":"A Brilliant Move by the Old Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to ruin your day,\u201d he says, \u201cbut your mother and I are divorcing. Forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The son is shocked. \u201cDad, what are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t stand each other anymore,\u201d the father says. \u201cWe\u2019re done. Call your sister in Leeds and tell her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The son calls his sister, who instantly explodes.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike hell you\u2019re getting divorced!\u201d she yells. \u201cI\u2019m coming up there tomorrow and we\u2019re sorting this out. Don\u2019t do anything until we get there. DO YOU HEAR ME?\u201d<\/p>\n

She hangs up.<\/p>\n

The father turns to his wife and says, \u201cSorted! They\u2019re coming for Christmas\u2014and they\u2019re paying their own way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve. \u201cI hate to ruin your day,\u201d he says, \u201cbut your mother […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7251,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions\/7251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}