{"id":10420,"date":"2014-01-31T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2014-01-31T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T08:58:29","slug":"quote-of-the-day-russian-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/quote-of-the-day-russian-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day &#8211; Russian Humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian men losing years to vodka: spirit linked to 35% of cases where a man dies before age 55, with study citing national sport of spectacular drunkenness.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/31\/russian-men-losing-years-to-vodka\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/31\/russian-men-losing-years-to-vodka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terry: Vera, did you know that 25% of Russian men die before the age of 55?<br \/>\nVera: Yes, I did, my dad was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Stalin is giving a speech when somebody sneezes. He asks, &#8220;who did that?&#8221;. Silence. He says, &#8220;kill the first row&#8221;. He asks, &#8220;who did that?&#8221;. Silence. He says, &#8220;kill the second row&#8221;. He asks, &#8220;who did that?&#8221;. An arm shakes upwards and a small voice says &#8220;me&#8221;. &#8220;Bless you&#8221;, says Stalin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian men losing years to vodka: spirit linked to 35% of cases where a man dies before age 55, with study citing national sport of spectacular drunkenness. http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/31\/russian-men-losing-years-to-vodka Terry: Vera, did you know that 25% of Russian men die before the age of 55? Vera: Yes, I did, my dad was one of them. Stalin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/quote-of-the-day-russian-humour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Quote of the day &#8211; Russian Humour&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,507],"class_list":["post-10420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-potd2014","tag-qotd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-2I4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10420\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}