{"id":6111,"date":"2025-04-16T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:48:34","slug":"the-mind-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6111","title":{"rendered":"The Mind Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was very hot and this man wanted desperately to take a dive in a nearby lake.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t bring his swimming outfit, but who cared? He was all alone. So he undressed and got into the water.<\/p>\n<p>After some delightful minutes of cool swimming, a pair of old ladies walked onto the shore in his direction. He panicked, got out of the water and grabbed a bucket lying in the sand nearby. He held the bucket in front of his private area and sighed with relief.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies got nearby and looked at him. He felt awkward and wanted to move.<\/p>\n<p>Then one of the ladies said, \u201cYou know, I have a special gift, I can read minds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpossible\u2019, said the embarrassed man, \u2018You really know what I think?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes\u201d, the lady replied, \u201cRight now, I bet you think that the bucket you\u2019re holding has a bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was very hot and this man wanted desperately to take a dive in a nearby lake. He didn\u2019t bring his swimming outfit, but who cared? He was all alone. So he undressed and got into the water. After some delightful minutes of cool swimming, a pair of old ladies walked onto the shore [&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-6111","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\/6111","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=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions\/6112"}],"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=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}