{"id":5587,"date":"2025-03-21T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:34:27","slug":"a-boy-his-father-and-his-mother-are-having-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5587","title":{"rendered":"A boy, his father, and his mother are having dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boy, his father, and his mother are having dinner, but the boy refuses to eat his broccoli.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;Eat your broccoli!&#8221; says the mother.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;No!&#8221; the boy shouts defiantly.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>The father leans in, whispers something in the boy\u2019s ear, and just like that, the boy gulps down his broccoli and hurries off to his room.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Curious, the mother asks, &#8220;What did you tell him?&#8221;<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;I told him that if he didn\u2019t eat his broccoli, his mickey wouldn\u2019t grow.&#8221;<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Without hesitation, the mother stands up and slaps the father\u2014hard.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Shocked, the man rubs his cheek. &#8220;What was that for?!&#8221;<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;For NOT eating your broccoli when you were a child!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boy, his father, and his mother are having dinner, but the boy refuses to eat his broccoli.&#8220;Eat your broccoli!&#8221; says the mother.&#8220;No!&#8221; the boy shouts defiantly.The father leans in, whispers something in the boy\u2019s ear, and just like that, the boy gulps down his broccoli and hurries off to his room.Curious, the mother asks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}