{"id":798,"date":"2012-02-13T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=798"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:25:52","slug":"bubba-had-shingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2012\/02\/13\/bubba-had-shingles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba had shingles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who spend much time in a doctor&#8217;s office should appreciate this! Doesn&#8217;t it seem more and more that physicians are running their practices like an assembly line? Here&#8217;s what happened to Bubba:<\/p>\n<p>Bubba walked into a doctor&#8217;s office and the receptionist asked him what he had.<\/p>\n<p>Bubba said: &#8216;Shingles.&#8217; So she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen minutes later a nurse&#8217;s aide came out and asked Bubba what he had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bubba said, &#8216;Shingles.&#8217; So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told Bubba to wait in the examining room.<\/p>\n<p>A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he had.<\/p>\n<p>Bubba said, &#8216;Shingles..&#8217; So the nurse gave Bubba a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later the doctor came in and found Bubba sitting patiently in the nude and asked Bubba what he had.<\/p>\n<p>Bubba said, &#8216;Shingles.&#8217; The doctor asked, &#8216;Where?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong> Bubba said, &#8216;Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to unload &#8217;em??&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(For those of you outside of North American, Bubba was delivering <a title=\"Roof Shingles at Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roof_shingle\" target=\"_blank\">Roofing Shingles<\/a>!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who spend much time in a doctor&#8217;s office should appreciate this! Doesn&#8217;t it seem more and more that physicians are running their practices like an assembly line? Here&#8217;s what happened to Bubba: Bubba walked into a doctor&#8217;s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. Bubba said: &#8216;Shingles.&#8217; So she wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,444],"tags":[650,61,132,445,644,1895,1896,480],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american","category-medicine","tag-bubba","tag-doctor","tag-ernie","tag-medical","tag-nurse","tag-shingle","tag-shingles","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}