{"id":26572,"date":"2013-11-17T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=26572"},"modified":"2013-11-17T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:00:42","slug":"barbara-blevins-brings-some-stress-relief-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/17\/barbara-blevins-brings-some-stress-relief-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Blevins Brings Some Stress Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span id=\"role_document\" style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20937\" alt=\"barbarablevins03\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/barbarablevins03.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Another Funny Story From Barbara Blevins To make you smile awhile<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span id=\"role_document\" style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25878\" alt=\"COWBOY-CAIPIRACOLOR\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/cowboy-caipiracolor.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"320\" \/>A young cowboy from Texas goes off to college. Half way through the semester, having foolishly<br \/>\nsquandered all his money &#8230;. he calls home.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dad,&#8221; he says, &#8220;You won&#8217;t believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here at A&amp;M<br \/>\nthat will teach our dog, Ole&#8217; Blue how to talk!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; his Dad says. &#8220;How do I get Ole&#8217; Blue in that program?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Just send him down here with $1,000&#8243; the young cowboy says&#8221;and I&#8217;ll get him in the course.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, his father sends the dog and $1,000.<br \/>\nAbout two-thirds of the way through the semester, the money again runs out. The boy calls home.<br \/>\n&#8220;So how&#8217;s Ole&#8217; Blue doing son?&#8221; his father asks. &#8220;Awesome, Dad, he&#8217;s talking up a storm,&#8221; he says,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span id=\"role_document\" style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><b>&#8220;but you just won&#8217;t believe this they&#8217;ve had such good results they have started to teach the animals how to read!&#8221;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Read!?&#8221; says his father, &#8220;No kidding! How do we get Blue in that program?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span id=\"role_document\" style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial;font-size:small;\"><b>&#8220;Just send $2,500, I&#8217;ll get him in the class.&#8221; The money promptly arrives. But our hero has a problem.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the year, his father will find out the dog can neither talk, nor read.<br \/>\nSo he shoots the dog.<br \/>\nWhen he arrives home at the end of the year, his father is all excited.<br \/>\n&#8220;Where&#8217;s Ole&#8217; Blue? I just can&#8217;t wait to see him read something and talk!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Dad,&#8221; the boy says, &#8220;I have some grim news. Yesterday morning, just before we left to drive home, Ole&#8217; Blue was<br \/>\nin the living room, kicked back in the recliner, reading the Wall Street Journal, like he usually does&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;Then Ole&#8217; Blue turned to me and asked, so, is your daddy still messing around with that little redhead who lives<br \/>\ndown the street?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe father went white and exclaimed, &#8220;I hope you shot that lying dog before he talks to your Mother!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I sure did, Dad!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s my boy!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe kid went on to law school, and now serves in Washington D.C. as a Congressman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26573\" alt=\"dog_173699k\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/dog_173699k.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dog_173699k.jpg 580w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dog_173699k-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Funny Story From Barbara Blevins To make you smile awhile . A young cowboy from Texas goes off to college. Half way through the semester, having foolishly squandered all his money &#8230;. he calls home. &#8220;Dad,&#8221; he says, &#8220;You won&#8217;t believe what modern education is developing! They actually have a program here at A&amp;M that will teach our dog, Ole&#8217; Blue how to talk!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; his Dad says. &#8220;How do I get Ole&#8217; Blue in that program?&#8221; &#8220;Just send him down here with $1,000&#8243; the young cowboy says&#8221;and<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/17\/barbara-blevins-brings-some-stress-relief-3\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}