{"id":905,"date":"2007-06-26T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2007-06-26T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T10:54:00","slug":"knock-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/knock-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan told his first joke the other day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you stop a cat from meowing in the back seat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You throw him in the front seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laughed, partly because lame though it was, I&#8217;d never heard it before, but mostly because I was delighted that Tristan joins a long line of ancestry in love with bad jokes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that was immediately followed by a thousand nonsensical and increasingly unfunny versions from both boys, including &#8220;How do you get a pepperoni to stop pizzaing in the back seat?&#8221; &#8220;You put it in the front seat.&#8221; If nothing else, they got the format down pat.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, knock-knock jokes reigned supreme. My repitoire for knock-knock jokes is unparalleled.<\/p>\n<p><em>Knock-knock.<\/em><br \/><em>Who&#8217;s there?<\/em><br \/><em>Isabelle.<\/em><br \/><em>Isabelle who?<\/em><br \/><em>Isabelle broken? I had to knock.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Knock-knock.<\/em><br \/><em>Who&#8217;s there?<\/em><br \/><em>Police.<\/em><br \/><em>Police who?<\/em><br \/><em>Po-lice open the door, it&#8217;s freezing out here.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Knock-knock.<\/em><br \/><em>Who&#8217;s there?<\/em><br \/><em>Dwayne.<\/em><br \/><em>Dwayne who?<\/em><br \/><em>Dwayne the bathtub, I&#8217;m dwowning!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The boys are good at memorizing them, but also favour the non-seqitor over an actual pun. For instance:<\/p>\n<p><em>Knock-knock.<\/em><br \/><em>Who&#8217;s there?<\/em><br \/><em>C3p0.<\/em><br \/><em>C3p0 who?<\/em><br \/><em>C3P0 ate spaghetti for dinner!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think we need some new material. Care to dip into your repretoire and share your fave kid jokes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan told his first joke the other day. &#8220;How do you stop a cat from meowing in the back seat?&#8221; &#8220;You throw him in the front seat.&#8221; I laughed, partly because lame though it was, I&#8217;d never heard it before, but mostly because I was delighted that Tristan joins a long line of ancestry in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/knock-knock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knock knock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}