{"id":1859,"date":"2007-07-08T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-whys-of-life\/"},"modified":"2007-07-08T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T05:37:18","slug":"the-whys-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/the-whys-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whys of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why, Why, Why<\/p>\n<p>Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?<\/p>\n<p>Why do banks charge a fee on &#8220;insufficient funds&#8221; when they know there is not enough?<\/p>\n<p>Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t glue stick to the bottle?<\/p>\n<p>Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t Tarzan have a beard?<\/p>\n<p>Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?<\/p>\n<p>Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?<\/p>\n<p>Whose idea was it to put an &#8220;S&#8221; in the word &#8220;lisp&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?<\/p>\n<p>Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?<\/p>\n<p>Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?<\/p>\n<p>Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?<\/p>\n<p>How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?<\/p>\n<p>When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, &#8220;It&#8217;s all right?&#8221; Well, it isn&#8217;t all right, so why don&#8217;t we say, &#8220;That hurt, you stupid idiot?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that&#8217;s falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?<\/p>\n<p>In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?<\/p>\n<p>How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?<\/p>\n<p>And my FAVORITE&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nThe statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends &#8212; if they&#8217;re okay, then it&#8217;s you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, Why, Why Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak? Why do banks charge a fee on &#8220;insufficient funds&#8221; when they know there is not enough? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-tZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}