{"id":650,"date":"2025-07-24T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:27:29","slug":"fascinate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fascinate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A teacher asked her students to use the word\u00a0\u201cfascinate\u201d\u00a0in a sentence.<\/h2>\n<p>Martha said, \u201cMy family went to the Louisville Zoo, and it was fascinating to see all the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teacher said, \u201cThat was good, but I wanted you to use the word \u2018fascinate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarita raised her hand. She said, \u201cMy family went to the Cincinnati Zoo and I was fascinated by the\u00a0animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s good, too,\u201d said the teacher, \u201cbut I really wanted you to use the word fascinate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little Billy raised his hand.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher hesitated because Billy was noted for his bad language, but surely he couldn\u2019t damage a world like \u201cfascinate,\u201d so she called on him.<\/p>\n<p>Billy said proudly,\u00a0<strong>\u201cMy aunt has a sweater with 10 buttons, but her b**bs are so big she can only fasten\u00a0eight.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18522 size-full td-animation-stack-type2-2\" src=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/teachmelife.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/w3-300x233.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Seven\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teachmelife.net\/do-you-see-9-rabbits-w\/\">rabbits<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Teacher: If I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?<\/p>\n<p>Paddy: Seven.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: No, listen carefully again! If I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?<\/p>\n<p>Paddy: Seven.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: Let\u2019s try this another way! If I give you two apples and two apples and another two apples,\u00a0how many apples\u00a0have you got?<\/p>\n<p>Paddy: Six.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: Good. Now if I give you two rabbits and two rabbits and another two rabbits, how many rabbits have you got?<\/p>\n<p>Paddy: Seven.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: How on earth do you work out that three lots of two rabbits is seven?<\/p>\n<p>Paddy: I\u2019ve already got one rabbit at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher asked her students to use the word\u00a0\u201cfascinate\u201d\u00a0in a sentence. Martha said, \u201cMy family went to the Louisville Zoo, and it was fascinating to see all the animals.\u201d The teacher said, \u201cThat was good, but I wanted you to use the word \u2018fascinate.\u2019\u201d Sarita raised her hand. She said, \u201cMy family went to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}