{"id":24097,"date":"2019-01-07T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24097"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:04:31","slug":"a-pun-that-needs-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/07\/a-pun-that-needs-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pun That Needs Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mango.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Mango but pawn in game of life<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I was working as a produce clerk while at the university, a friend of a co-worker asked me if we had any mongoes.  I didn&#8217;t recognize what she was asking for, and my co-worker explained that she was from Puerto Rico and was asking about mangoes.  Of course, it was a dive of a grocery store so it didn&#8217;t have mangoes, but I&#8217;ve pronounced it the Spanish way ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Even though, apparently, the fruit is not native to Central and South America as I thought; it&#8217;s native to Asia.  Well, I have a choice to make now that I have misinformed my family: I can correct my assertion to them and further illustrate the fallability of the father in this household, or I can let it lay and maybe let them discover at some future time that their father was comfortable making daft assertions that were untrue.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;m going to do already, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas, I put a mango and a kiwi in each of my boys&#8217; stockings, and I finally served them up, but the boys didn&#8217;t like them.  I tried a couple of segments and found they tasted a little like mango but a whole more like pickled herring.  I guess it&#8217;s hard to get tree-fresh mangoes in Springfield, Missouri, in December.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: I am changing the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mango but pawn in game of life When I was working as a produce clerk while at the university, a friend of a co-worker asked me if we had any mongoes. I didn&#8217;t recognize what she was asking for, and my co-worker explained that she was from Puerto Rico and was asking about mangoes. Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24101,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24097\/revisions\/24101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}