{"id":17915,"date":"2018-01-17T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2018-01-17T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T08:54:06","slug":"stud-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17915","title":{"rendered":"STUD ROOSTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer went out one day and bought a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says,<br \/>\n&#8216;OK old fart, Time for you to retire.&#8217; The old rooster replies, &#8216;Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done to me, can&#8217;t you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?&#8217;<br \/>\nThe young rooster says, &#8216;Beat it: You are washed up and I am taking over.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe old rooster says, &#8216;I tell you what, young stud. I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe young rooster laughs. &#8216;You know you don&#8217;t stand a chance, old man. So, just to be fair, I will give you a head start..&#8217;<br \/>\nThe old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him.<br \/>\nThey round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap.<br \/>\nHe is only about 5 feet behind the old rooster and gaining fast! The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot on the front porch when he sees the roosters running by.<br \/>\nThe Old Rooster is squawking and running as hard as he can.<br \/>\nThe Farmer grabs his shotgun and &#8211; BOOM! &#8211; He blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says, &#8216;Dammit&#8230; &#8230;third gay rooster I bought this month.&#8217;<br \/>\nMoral of this story? &#8230;<br \/>\nAge, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery always overcome youth and arrogance!<br \/>\nOLD GUYS RULE! (don&#8217;t mess with us)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer went out one day and bought a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says, &#8216;OK old fart, Time for you to retire.&#8217; The old rooster replies, &#8216;Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STUD ROOSTER&#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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}