{"id":1774,"date":"2025-10-03T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:52:11","slug":"a-old-snake-goes-to-see-his-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"A old snake goes to see his doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A old snake goes to see his doctor and says,<\/h2>\n<p>\u201dI need something for my eyes\u2026 I can\u2019t see very well these days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor fixes him up with a pair of glasses and tells him to return in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The snake comes back in two weeks and tells the doctor that he\u2019s very depressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the problem?\u201d Asks the doctor. \u201cDidn\u2019t the glasses help you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe glasses are fine doc.\u201d Answers the snake dejectedly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThing is, I just discovered I\u2019ve been living with a garden hose the past 2 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18522 size-full td-animation-stack-type2-2\" src=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/teachmelife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3-300x233.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Once upon a time there was a snake named Nate who lived in the woods.<\/h2>\n<p>There was a road which wound through the woods. Nate liked to lie because it caught the sun and warmed his bones.<\/p>\n<p>Very near this road in these woods there was a tree \u2014 special tree. It was special because on the side of the tree there was a lever \u2014 and if the lever were pushed, then the world would end.<\/p>\n<p>One day Granny was driving through the woods in her jalopy.<\/p>\n<p>Granny was a tendered-hearted soul who would never hurt a fly. As usual, Nate was lying on the road, sunning himself. As Granny came along, she didn\u2019t see Nate at first.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when she did see him, it was almost too late. She swerved to to avoid hitting him.<\/p>\n<p>When she swerved, she lost control of her jalopy and she crashed into a tree \u2014 the special tree with the lever \u2026 and the lever got pushed \u2026 and the world ended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moral to the story: Better Nate than lever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>There were two snakes talking.<\/h2>\n<p>The 1st one said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSidney, are we the type of snakes who wrap ourselves around our prey and squeeze and crush until they\u2019re dead? Or are we the type of snake who ambush our prey and bite them and they are poisioned?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the second Snake says \u201cWhy do you ask?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1st one replies:\u00a0<strong>\u201cI just bit my lip!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A old snake goes to see his doctor and says, \u201dI need something for my eyes\u2026 I can\u2019t see very well these days\u201d. The doctor fixes him up with a pair of glasses and tells him to return in two weeks. The snake comes back in two weeks and tells the doctor that he\u2019s very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}