{"id":5731,"date":"2025-03-29T06:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2025-03-29T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:07:42","slug":"the-blonde-and-the-road-paint-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5731","title":{"rendered":"The Blonde and the Road Paint Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was in desperate need of a road painter, so he hired a blonde for the job. The instructions were simple: paint the yellow stripes down the center of the road and make sure to cover at least four miles a day.<\/p>\n<p>On the first day, she absolutely crushed it\u2014eight miles! The boss was stunned. \u201cWow! This is incredible. She\u2019s a natural!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second day, she slowed down a bit but still managed to paint four miles\u2014right on target. The boss shrugged it off. \u201cStill good. She\u2019s keeping pace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the third day, however, she only covered two miles. The boss scratched his head. \u201cHmm\u2026 weird. Maybe she\u2019s just tired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the fourth day, she barely managed one mile. Now the boss was downright puzzled. He finally approached her, frustration creeping into his voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, what\u2019s going on? You started off strong, but every day you\u2019re slowing down more and more!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The blonde wiped the sweat from her brow, sighed heavily, and said, \u201cWell, I keep getting farther and farther away from the paint bucket!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was in desperate need of a road painter, so he hired a blonde for the job. The instructions were simple: paint the yellow stripes down the center of the road and make sure to cover at least four miles a day. On the first day, she absolutely crushed it\u2014eight miles! The boss was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","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\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}