{"id":12252,"date":"2026-01-17T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12252"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:32:15","slug":"a-brilliant-move-by-the-old-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12252","title":{"rendered":"A Brilliant Move by the Old Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"159\">A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"273\">\u201cI hate to ruin your day,\u201d he says, \u201cbut your mother and I are divorcing. Forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"329\">The son is shocked. \u201cDad, what are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"438\">\u201cWe can\u2019t stand each other anymore,\u201d the father says. \u201cWe\u2019re done. Call your sister in Leeds and tell her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"489\">The son calls his sister, who instantly explodes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"651\">\u201cLike hell you\u2019re getting divorced!\u201d she yells. \u201cI\u2019m coming up there tomorrow and we\u2019re sorting this out. Don\u2019t do anything until we get there. DO YOU HEAR ME?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"653\" data-end=\"666\">She hangs up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"779\">The father turns to his wife and says, \u201cSorted! They\u2019re coming for Christmas\u2014and they\u2019re paying their own way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve. \u201cI hate to ruin your day,\u201d he says, \u201cbut your mother and I are divorcing. Forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d The son is shocked. \u201cDad, what are you talking about?\u201d \u201cWe can\u2019t stand each other anymore,\u201d the father says. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12254,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12252\/revisions\/12254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}