{"id":71459,"date":"2025-08-12T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71459"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:04:13","slug":"an-elderly-couple-was-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71459","title":{"rendered":"An elderly couple was flying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-406-853x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-406-853x1024.png 853w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-406-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-406-768x922.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-406.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a quiet Sunday evening, Bert and Edna, married 55 years, rocked on their porch swing with lukewarm tea. \u201cLet\u2019s talk bucket lists,\u201d Edna said. \u201cMine\u2019s simple\u2014remember where I put my pants,\u201d Bert joked. Then, after some thought: \u201cSkydiving.\u201d Edna scoffed. \u201cYou faint tying your shoes.\u201d She chose her own \u201cgoal\u201d: confessing mischief. She admitted sabotaging his recliner with a spatula after he ruined her curtains and rigging the TV remote so it always landed on the Hallmark channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bert confessed too\u2014his \u201cfishing trips\u201d were bowling sessions, trophies hidden in the basement. Edna realized she\u2019d once tossed out a fake award. They laughed, bought a new recliner, went skydiving, and bowled together every Saturday. Years later, they died in a car accident and reached heaven, where St. Peter showed them a dream home, free golf, and an endless buffet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny low-fat options?\u201d Bert asked. \u201cNo need\u2014no sickness or weight gain here,\u201d St. Peter said. Bert turned to Edna, furious. \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for your paleo chicken and bran muffins, we could\u2019ve been here years ago!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71407\">also reach&#8230;.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a quiet Sunday evening, Bert and Edna, married 55 years, rocked on their porch swing with lukewarm tea. \u201cLet\u2019s talk bucket lists,\u201d Edna said. \u201cMine\u2019s simple\u2014remember&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71461,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71459\/revisions\/71461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}