{"id":2616,"date":"2004-06-24T04:37:59","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/24\/going-down\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:04:03","slug":"going-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/24\/going-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Going down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10720,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/001635.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050504200938\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net:80\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/001635.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/easy-energy.biz&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-06 02:48:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-06 02:48:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A plane is about to crash. There are five passengers on board, but there are only four parachutes.<\/p>\n<p>The first passenger says: &#8220;I am Ronaldo, the best football player in the world. The football world needs me, and I cannot die on my fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He grabs the first parachute and jumps out of the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The second passenger, Hillary Clinton, says: &#8220;I am the wife of the former president of the United States; I am the senator of New York and I have a good chance of being president of the United States in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She grabs a parachute and jumps off the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The third passenger, George W. Bush, says: &#8220;I am the president of the United States of America. I have huge responsibilities in the world. Besides, I am the smartest president in the history of my country and can&#8217;t shun the responsibility to my people by dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He grabs a pack and jumps off the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth passenger, the Pope, says to the fifth passenger, a young school boy: &#8220;I am old. I have lived my life as a good person and as a priest should and so I shall leave the last parachute to you; you have the rest of your life ahead of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To this the little boy says: &#8220;Don&#8217;t fret old man. There is a parachute for each of us! The smartest president of America took my schoolbag.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoterically.net\/log\/archives\/001635.html\" title=\"esoterically.net: Juries and Planes\">Len<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane is about to crash. There are five passengers on board, but there are only four parachutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}