{"id":16125,"date":"2026-10-28T06:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=16125"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:07:44","slug":"at-71-fred-finally-got-his-dream-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=16125","title":{"rendered":"At 71, Fred Finally Got His Dream Flight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-23957\" class=\"post-23957 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fred and his wife Edna went to the state fair every single year. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t9a\/2\/16\/1f3a1.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfa1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And every year, Fred would say,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEdna, I sure would love to ride that airplane.\u201d <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t37\/2\/16\/2708.png\" alt=\"\u2708\ufe0f\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Edna always replied,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know, Fred\u2026 but that airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars.\u201d <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t7e\/2\/16\/1f4b5.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcb5\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One year, Fred said,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEdna, I\u2019m 71 years old. If I don\u2019t ride that plane this year, I might never get the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Edna said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFred, that airplane ride costs ten dollars\u2014and ten dollars is ten dollars.\u201d <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tc\/2\/16\/1f610.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude10\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilot overheard them and said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll make you a deal. I\u2019ll take you both for a ride for free\u2014but if you say one single word, it\u2019s ten dollars.\u201d <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/ta0\/2\/16\/1f92b.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2b\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up they went! The pilot twisted, looped, and dove through the sky\u2014still not a peep. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t4c\/2\/16\/1f632.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude32\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t37\/2\/16\/2708.png\" alt=\"\u2708\ufe0f\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they landed, the pilot said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWow! I did everything I could to make you scream, but you didn\u2019t say a word!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fred smiled and said,<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, I was gonna say something when Edna fell out\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but you know what she always said\u2014ten dollars is ten dollars!\u201d <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6f\/2\/16\/1f602.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t1\/2\/16\/1f4b8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcb8\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t37\/2\/16\/2708.png\" alt=\"\u2708\ufe0f\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-tags\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"entry-footer\">\n<div class=\"share-icons\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-related clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred and his wife Edna went to the state fair every single year. And every year, Fred would say, \u201cEdna, I sure would love to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16125","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\/16125","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=16125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16127,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions\/16127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}