{"id":2729,"date":"2025-01-01T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2025-01-01T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T08:13:07","slug":"these-three-sons-compete-over-who-got-their-mother-the-best-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/these-three-sons-compete-over-who-got-their-mother-the-best-present\/","title":{"rendered":"These three sons compete over who got their mother the best present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jokesoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/10_img-e1565805027994.png\" alt =\"1\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" data-wp-pid=\"28830\"><\/h2>\n<h2>Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered.<\/h2>\n<p>Years later, they get back together to discuss the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother for her 90th Birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The first said, \u201cI built a big house for our mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second said, \u201cI sent her a Mercedes with a driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The third smiled and said, \u201cI\u2019ve got you both beat.\u00a0 You know how Mom enjoys the Bible, and you know she can\u2019t see very well.\u00a0 I sent her a brown parrot that can recite the entire Bible.\u00a0 It took 20 monks in a monastery 12 years to teach him.\u00a0 I had to pledge to contribute $100,000.00 a year for 10 years, but it was worth it.\u00a0 Mom just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot will recite it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilton,\u201d she wrote the first son, \u201cThe house you built is so huge.\u00a0 I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarvin,\u201d she wrote to another, \u201cI am too old to travel. I stay home all the time, so I never use the Mercedes.\u00a0 And the driver is so rude!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDearest Melvin,\u201d she wrote to her third son, \u201cYou were the only son to have the good sense to know what your mother likes. That chicken was delicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Years later, they get back together to discuss the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother for her 90th Birthday. The first said, \u201cI built a big house for our mother.\u201d The second said, \u201cI sent her a Mercedes with a driver.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funny-jokes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jokesoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Joke-These-three-sons-compete-over-who-got-the-mother-the-best-present.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nine9ja.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}