{"id":5952,"date":"2025-04-08T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:46:52","slug":"there-was-an-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5952","title":{"rendered":"There was an old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an old man who always rode his bike to his brother\u2019s house every weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It took him 2 hours and he alway\u2019s made it by there by 2PM.<\/p>\n<p>One day he tried to make it in 1 hour.<\/p>\n<p>Collapsing on a hill from exhaustion, while sitting there, a Corvette pulls up and asks him if he needs a ride.<\/p>\n<p>The man looks at his watch and sees he would be late if not, but there is already a passenger, so he asks how?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo problem,\u201d says the man in the corvette, \u201cI\u2019ve got a rope in the back and we\u2019ll tie your bike to the back bumper and you can ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man says, \u201cOk!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They take off and the driver yells back, \u201cJust yell beep beep if I\u2019m going to fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No problem the man thinks.<\/p>\n<p>They come to an Intersection and a Ferrari pulls up, the man\u2019s eye\u2019s widen in fright.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the light changes and they\u2019re off!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the guy made it to his brothers on time and the Vette lost.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the local police dept: \u201cHey guys the weirdest thing just happened to me. A Ferrari and a Vette just lost me at over 120 mph on Main Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s so weird about that?\u201d asks the other cops.<\/p>\n<p>The first cop says, \u201cThere was this old guy on a bike behind them screaming beep beep and trying to pass!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an old man who always rode his bike to his brother\u2019s house every weekend. It took him 2 hours and he alway\u2019s made it by there by 2PM. One day he tried to make it in 1 hour. Collapsing on a hill from exhaustion, while sitting there, a Corvette pulls up and 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-5952","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\/5952","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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5953"}],"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=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}