{"id":296,"date":"2024-11-20T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/?p=296"},"modified":"2024-11-20T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T23:18:07","slug":"the-genie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/the-genie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A man was walking along the beach and found a bottle. He looked around and didn&#8217;t see anyone, so he opened the bottle. A genie appeared and thanked the man for letting him out. The genie said,\u201d I am so grateful to get out of the bottle that I will grant you one wish. I can only grant one.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The man thought for a while and finally said, \u201cI have always wanted to go to Hawaii. I&#8217;ve never been able to go because I cannot fly. Airplanes are much too frightening for me. On a boat, I see all the water and I become very claustrophobic. So, I wish for a road to be built from here to Hawaii.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The genie thought for a few minutes and finally said, \u201cNo I don&#8217;t think I can do that. Just think of all the work involved. Consider all the piling needed to hold up a highway and how deep they would have to go to reach the bottom of the ocean. Imagine all the pavement needed. No, that&#8217;s just too much to ask.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Well, the man thought for a few minutes and then told the genie, \u201cThere is one other thing I&#8217;ve always wanted. I would like to be able to understand women. What makes them laugh and cry, why are they temperamental, why are they so difficult to get along with. Basically, what makes them tick.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The genie considered for a few minutes and said, \u201cSo do you want two lanes or four?\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was walking along the beach and found a bottle. He looked around and didn&#8217;t see anyone, so he opened the bottle. A genie appeared and thanked the man for letting him out. The genie said,\u201d I am so grateful to get out of the bottle that I will grant you one wish. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creatingloverelationships.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}