{"id":16146,"date":"2026-10-31T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=16146"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:17:03","slug":"dads-christmas-phone-call-sent-the-kids-into-a-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=16146","title":{"rendered":"Dad\u2019s Christmas Phone Call Sent the Kids Into a Panic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve and says, \u201cI hate to ruin your day but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Dad, what are you talking about?\u2019 the son screams.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe can\u2019t stand the sight of each other any longer\u201d the father says<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re sick of each other and I\u2019m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Leeds and tell her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frantically, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLike hell they\u2019re getting divorced!\u201d she shouts, \u201cI\u2019ll take care of this!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She calls Scotland immediately, and screams at her father \u201cYou are NOT getting divorced. Don\u2019t do a single thing until I get there. I\u2019m calling my brother back, and we\u2019ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don\u2019t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?\u201d and hangs up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Sorted! They\u2019re coming for Christmas \u2013 and they\u2019re paying their own way.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve and says, \u201cI hate to ruin your day but I have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16146","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\/16146","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=16146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16148,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146\/revisions\/16148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}