{"id":6186,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/creeped-out-by-death\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:33","slug":"creeped-out-by-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/creeped-out-by-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeped Out By Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guy was riding in a cab.  He was new to the city and was looking for a good place to eat, so he leaned forward, tapped the cabby on the shoulder and said, \u201cHey, Buddy&#8230;.\u201d  The driver let out a blood-curdling scream and lost control of the cab.  He nearly hit a bus, jumped the curb and stopped just inches from going through a huge plate-glass window and into a crowded restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>For a few minutes, there was dead silence in the cab.  All you could hear was two hearts beating like bass drums pounding out a quick march.  The driver finally turned around and said, \u201cMan, you scared the living daylights out of me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The passenger was as white as a sheet and his eyes were as big as dinner plates.  When he caught his breath he said, \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I didn\u2019t realize tapping you on the shoulder would scare you so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cabby said, \u201cWell, it\u2019s not your fault.  This is my first day driving a cab.  But for the last 25 years, I drove a hearse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guy was riding in a cab. He was new to the city and was looking for a good place to eat, so he leaned forward, tapped the cabby on the shoulder and said, \u201cHey, Buddy&#8230;.\u201d The driver let out a blood-curdling scream and lost control of the cab. He nearly hit a bus, jumped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1059,1609,3812],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}