{"id":2447,"date":"2019-04-01T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2019-04-01T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:01:18","slug":"anger-and-exasperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/2019\/04\/01\/anger-and-exasperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger And Exasperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anger And Exasperation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her father and asked, &#8220;Dad, what is the difference between anger and exasperation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The father replied, &#8220;It is mostly a matter of degree. Let me show you what I mean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With that the father went to the telephone and dialed a number at random. To the man who answered the phone, he said, &#8220;Hello, is Melvin there?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe man answered, &#8220;There is no one living here named Melvin. Why don&#8217;t you learn to look up numbers before you dial&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See,&#8221; said the father to his daughter. &#8220;That man was not a bit happy with our call. He was probably very busy with something and we annoyed him. Now watch&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The father dialed the number again. &#8220;Hello, is Melvin there?&#8221; asked the father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now look here!&#8221; came the heated reply. &#8220;You just called this number and I told you that there is no Melvin here! You&#8217;ve got lot of guts calling again!&#8221; The receiver slammed down hard.<\/p>\n<p>The father turned to his daughter and said, &#8220;You see, that was anger. Now I&#8217;ll show you what exasperation means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He dialed the same number, and when a violent voice roared, &#8220;Hello!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The father calmly said, &#8220;Hello, this is Melvin. Have there been any calls for me?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger And Exasperation A young girl who was writing a paper for school came to her father and asked, &#8220;Dad, what is the difference between anger and exasperation?&#8221; The father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravensplayland.com\/wpRAVEN\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}