{"id":15838,"date":"2026-10-04T05:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=15838"},"modified":"2026-10-04T05:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T05:33:26","slug":"a-fish-walked-into-a-doctors-office-the-advice-was-even-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=15838","title":{"rendered":"A Fish Walked Into a Doctor\u2019s Office\u2026 The Advice Was Even Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fish goes to the doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctor says, \u201cHello, sir. What brings you in today?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fish replies, \u201cEverything. I hurt my back at work, I have a cold, my eyesight is going, and I have high blood pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctor raises his eyebrows, jots down some notes on his clipboard, and says,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOkay, Mr. Salmon, what\u2019s your lifestyle like? Do you eat healthily, get enough sleep, all that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh, yes,\u201d replies the fish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI eat organic, sleep at least 7 hours a night, and I never drink or smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At that, the doctor smiles and slaps his knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell that\u2019s your problem!\u201d he exclaims. \u201cLet me write you a prescription for some Marlboros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fish is dumbfounded. \u201cDoctor, why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctor finishes writing the prescription rips it off his pad, and hands it to the fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou need to start smoking,\u201d he says,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cbecause smoking cures salmon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fish goes to the doctor. The doctor says, \u201cHello, sir. What brings you in today?\u201d The fish replies, \u201cEverything. I hurt my back at work,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15838","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\/15838","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=15838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15838\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}