{"id":930,"date":"2009-03-17T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:05:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:05:52","slug":"add-a-little-humor-to-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/17\/add-a-little-humor-to-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Add a little humor to your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-934\" title=\"smile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/smile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"smile\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Humor in Uniform is a favorite section in the Reader\u2019s Digest. \u00a0Having served as a soldier and Army Chaplain, for 20 years, in time of peace and for two years of war in Vietnam, I appreciate recognition given our soldiers, even if its humorous.Being rather serious and solemn by nature, I have a psychological need for entertainment, especially humor.\u00a0 I meet this need for balance for jocularity by selecting cheerful TV programs to watch while exercising at the Athletic Club. When I get there early enough, I\u2019ll watch my all time favorite, M.A.S.H.<\/p>\n<p>For my own benefit, as well as that of listeners, when I give a homily at the Unitarian Church, I introduce the message with a humorous story. I find this is an effective means of gaining the attention of the congregation.\u00a0 It also gives me some sense of calmness and peace of mind.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In one of my speaking \u00a0engagement s at the Church, I used the following humorous story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cA middle aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she had a near death experience. Seeing God, she asked \u201cIs my time up?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cNo, you have another 43 years, two months and eight days to live,\u201d God said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>After the woman recovered, she decided that if she had that much time left, she was going to make the most of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>She went to the hairdresser for a permanent and color rinse. Then she returned to the hospital for liposuction, a facelift and a tummy tuck.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>After her last operation, she left the hospital. While crossing the street she was hit by a truck and killed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>When the woman got to heaven, she told God: \u201cI thought you said I had another 40 years to live. Why didn\u2019t you pull me from the path of the truck?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>God just shrugged. \u201cI didn\u2019t recognize you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 Norbert Robben, Topeka, Kansas<\/p>\n<p>I recommend \u00a0joining us in finding and regaining humor today. Exercise your funny bone often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humor in Uniform is a favorite section in the Reader\u2019s Digest. \u00a0Having served as a soldier and Army Chaplain, for 20 years, in time of peace and for two years of war in Vietnam, I appreciate recognition given our soldiers, even if its humorous.Being rather serious and solemn by nature, I have a psychological need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[886,888,887,26641],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-f0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}