{"id":5976,"date":"2025-04-09T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:27:12","slug":"an-old-farmer-was-stopped-by-a-state-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5976","title":{"rendered":"An old farmer was stopped by a state trooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old farmer was hauling a load of manure when he was stopped by a state trooper. \u201cYou were speeding,\u201d the cop said. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to give you a ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYep,\u201d the farmer said as he watched the trooper shoo away several flies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese flies are terrible,\u201d the trooper complained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYep,\u201d the farmer said. \u201cThose are circle flies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s a circle fly?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThem flies that circle a horse\u2019s ass,\u201d answered the farmer. \u201cThem are circle flies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t be calling me a horse\u2019s ass, would you?\u201d The trooper angrily asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNope, I didn\u2019t,\u201d the farmer replied. \u201cBut you just can\u2019t fool them flies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old farmer was hauling a load of manure when he was stopped by a state trooper. \u201cYou were speeding,\u201d the cop said. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to give you a ticket.\u201d \u201cYep,\u201d the farmer said as he watched the trooper shoo away several flies. \u201cThese flies are terrible,\u201d the trooper complained. \u201cYep,\u201d the farmer [&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-5976","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\/5976","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=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5977,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5977"}],"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=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}