{"id":15772,"date":"2026-10-01T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=15772"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:09:00","slug":"two-hospital-beds-one-unexpected-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=15772","title":{"rendered":"Two Hospital Beds, One Unexpected Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man was brought into the hospital intensive care ward, put in a bed, with tubes coming out everywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week later, another man was admitted in a similar condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both lay there, machines pinging, tubes poking, etc. A couple more weeks before one of them had the strength to raise his hand and point to himself and say, \u201cAmerican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other patient signaled he had heard, raised his own hand, and said, \u201cCanadian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This act tired them out so badly that it was a week before the first summoned up the strength to say, \u201cNew York\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other replied in a weedy, frail voice, \u201cToronto\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once more, the strain was too much for them both, and they passed out. Days passed before the first patient managed to again point to himself and say, \u201cMichael\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replied the other, \u201cDavid\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few hours later, Michael managed to point to himself again and rasp out weakly, \u201cCancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David responded, \u201cSagittarius.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was brought into the hospital intensive care ward, put in a bed, with tubes coming out everywhere. A week later, another man was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-and-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15774,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions\/15774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}