{"id":3804,"date":"2026-04-02T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:53:34","slug":"a-sailor-brings-his-boat-up-to-a-restaurant-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"A sailor brings his boat up to a restaurant dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sailor brings his boat up to a restaurant dock to eat lunch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p>The dock hand says, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, sir, but I can\u2019t let you dine here today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>This establishment has a necktie policy, and you are not wearing one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I don\u2019t have a tie on,\u201d replied the sailor, \u201cI\u2019m on a boat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, go down below and put one on,\u201d said the dock hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t HAVE one!\u201d shouted the sailor.<\/p>\n<p>The dock hand, not wanting to turn away a customer, said: \u201cWell, why don\u2019t you just find something that approximates a tie<\/p>\n<p>That should be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After some time, the sailor comes out with a pair of jumper cables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all I could find to put around my neck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sighing, the dock hand said: \u201cOK, I\u2019ll let you in with those, but just don\u2019t start anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sailor brings his boat up to a restaurant dock to eat lunch. The dock hand says, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, sir, but I can\u2019t let you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}