{"id":25809,"date":"2019-12-18T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25809"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:40:31","slug":"retired-men-deep-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25809","title":{"rendered":"Retired Men &#8212; Deep Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing, and I said, &#8220;Nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason I said &#8220;nothing&#8221; instead of saying &#8220;just thinking&#8221; is because she then would have asked, &#8220;About what?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally I pondered an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn&#8217;t really know, here is the reason for my conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, &#8220;It might be nice to have another child.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you never hear a guy say, &#8220;You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rest my case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time for another beer. Then maybe a nap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer. The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking. My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing, and I said, &#8220;Nothing.&#8221; The reason I said &#8220;nothing&#8221; instead of saying &#8220;just thinking&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retired Men &#8212; Deep Thinkers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25809","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\/25809","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=25809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25810,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions\/25810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}