{"id":4898,"date":"2025-10-29T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:57:13","slug":"joke-of-the-day-the-mysterious-napping-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"JOKE OF THE DAY: The Mysterious Napping Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An old, tired-looking dog wandered into a man\u2019s yard. From his collar and well-fed belly, the man could tell he had a home and was well cared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dog calmly walked up, wagging his tail. The man petted him kindly, and the dog followed him into the house, strolled down the hall, curled up in a corner, and fell fast asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An hour later, the dog got up, went to the door, and waited to be let out. The man opened the door, and the dog trotted away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, the dog was back. Same thing \u2014 greeting, nap, and departure. This continued for several weeks, like clockwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the man became curious. He pinned a note to the dog\u2019s collar that said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to know who owns this sweet dog, and if you\u2019re aware he comes to my house every afternoon for a nap.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, the dog returned with a new note attached:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHe lives in a house with six kids \u2014 two under the age of three. He\u2019s just trying to catch up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old, tired-looking dog wandered into a man\u2019s yard. From his collar and well-fed belly, the man could tell he had a home and was well cared&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}