{"id":343,"date":"2008-02-20T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-02-20T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T10:07:23","slug":"oaps-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/oaps-having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"OAPs having fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src='\/blog\/wp-content\/ParkingTicket.jpg' alt='Parking Ticket (from iStockPhoto)' \/>From the Inbox:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. <\/p>\n<p>Well, for example, the other day my wife and I went into town and went into a shop. <\/p>\n<p>We were only in there for about 5 minutes but when we came out there was a warden writing out a parking ticket. <\/p>\n<p>We went up to him and said, &#8216;Come on mate, how about giving an OAP a break?&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. <\/p>\n<p>I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tyres. <\/p>\n<p>So my wife called him a s**t-head. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windscreen with the first. <\/p>\n<p>Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Personally, we didn&#8217;t care. We came into town by bus. <\/p>\n<p>We try to have a little fun each day now that we&#8217;re retired, it&#8217;s important at our age.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Inbox: &#8220;Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day my wife and I went into town and went into a shop. We were only in there for about 5 minutes but when we came out there was a warden writing out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-inbox","tag-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}