{"id":10179,"date":"2023-11-24T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:31:57","slug":"buried-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/2023\/11\/24\/buried-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried upside down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An old man and woman were married for many years, even though they hated each other.\u00a0 Whenever there was a confrontation, yelling could be heard deep into the night. The old man would shout, \u201cWhen I die, I will dig my way up and out of the grave and come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors feared him. They believed he practiced magic because of the many strange occurrences that took place in their neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The old man liked the fact that he was feared.\u00a0 To everyone&#8217;s relief, he died of a heart attack when he was 98.<\/p>\n<p>His wife had a closed casket at the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>After the burial, she went straight to the local bar and began to party as if there was no tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Her neighbours, concerned for her safety, asked &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you afraid that he may indeed be able to dig his way out of the grave and haunt you for the rest of your life?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wife put down her drink and said, &#8220;Let him dig.\u00a0 I had him buried upside down.\u00a0\u00a0 And I know he won&#8217;t ask for directions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Neumann<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2012, DPNLIVE \u2013 All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man and woman were married for many years, even though they hated each other.\u00a0 Whenever there was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-bit-of-fun","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions\/10181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.webhostlabs.net\/synergy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}