{"id":78,"date":"2026-07-21T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:53:00","slug":"genie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Genie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie. The genie said &#8220;OK. You released me from the lamp, blah blah blah. This is the fourth time this month and I&#8217;m getting a little sick of these wishes so you can forget about three. You only get one wish!&#8221;<br>The man sat and thought about it for a while and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to go to Hawaii but I&#8217;m scared to fly and I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The genie laughed and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s impossible. Think of the logistics of that! How would the supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how much concrete\u2026how much steel!! No, think of another wish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man said OK and tried to think of a really good wish. Finally, he said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don&#8217;t care and that I&#8217;m insensitive. So, I wish that I could understand women\u2026.know how they feel inside and what they&#8217;re thinking when they give me the silent treatment\u2026.know why they&#8217;re crying, know what they really want when they say &#8216;nothing&#8217;\u2026.know how to make them truly happy\u2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The genie said, &#8220;You want that bridge two lanes or four?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled across an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie. The genie said &#8220;OK. You released me from the lamp, blah blah blah. This is the fourth time this month and I&#8217;m getting a little sick of these wishes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jokes.mohinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}