{"id":575,"date":"2006-11-10T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/11\/the-zen-hotdog-half-joke\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:52:00","slug":"the-zen-hotdog-half-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/11\/the-zen-hotdog-half-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zen Hotdog Half Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/zen_hotdog.jpg\" \/><br \/>At a recent visit to the Byam Shaw school of art, up at the top of Holloway Road, Archway, I found this poster advertising an exhibition, which tells half a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What did the Zen master say to the hotdog salesman?<br \/>A: Make me one with everything.<\/p>\n<p>Good attempt noted. However, the interchange continued thus:<\/p>\n<p>The hotdog salesman hands the Zen master a fat hotdog with relish, onions, mustard, the works, and says, &#8220;That&#8217;ll be five dollars.&#8221; The Zen master hands him a ten, and the hotdog salesman takes his money, and turns to the person behind him and says, &#8220;Next?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Zen master waits patiently until the hotdog salesman is done serving, then asks him, &#8220;What about my change?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hotdog salesman replies, &#8220;Change comes from within&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a recent visit to the Byam Shaw school of art, up at the top of Holloway Road, Archway, I found this poster advertising an exhibition, which tells half a joke. Q: What did the Zen master say to the hotdog salesman?A: Make me one with everything. Good attempt noted. However, the interchange continued thus: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}