{"id":5761,"date":"2025-03-30T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2025-03-30T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:37:53","slug":"a-man-named-jack-walks-into-bobs-stables-to-buy-a-new-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5761","title":{"rendered":"A man named Jack walks into Bob\u2019s Stables to buy a new horse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Jack walks into Bob\u2019s Stables to buy a new horse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen here,\u201d says Bob, the owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have exactly the horse you are looking for. The only thing is he was trained by an interesting guy. He doesn\u2019t stop and goes the usual way. The way to get him to stop is to yell \u2018HEY HEY!\u2019, and the way to get him to go is by yelling \u2018Thank God!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack nodded his head. \u201cFine with me. Can I take him for a test run?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bob agrees.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, Jack is having the time of his life, thinking to himself that the horse sure could run fast.<\/p>\n<p>As he speeds down a dirt road, he panics as he realizes there\u2019s a cliff-edge fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop!\u201d Jack shouts, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>He remembers what he has to say to make the horse stop just five feet from the edge and yells: \u201cHEY HEY!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The horse skids to a halt, with just an inch to spare before a sheer drop of hundreds of feet.<\/p>\n<p>Breathless, Jack looks over the cliff edge in disbelief at his good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>He looks up to the sky, raises his hands in the air, and breathes a deep sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh,\u201d he says, relieved. \u201cThank God!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Jack walks into Bob\u2019s Stables to buy a new horse. \u201cListen here,\u201d says Bob, the owner. \u201cI have exactly the horse you are looking for. The only thing is he was trained by an interesting guy. He doesn\u2019t stop and goes the usual way. The way to get him to stop is [&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-5761","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\/5761","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=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5762"}],"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=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}