{"id":194,"date":"2008-09-09T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/?p=194"},"modified":"2008-09-09T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T22:57:41","slug":"will-i-live-to-be-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/2008\/09\/09\/will-i-live-to-be-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I Live to be 80?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Gina:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">Some                  times you just have to ask yourself &#8221; Will I live to be                  80?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: red;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">I                  recently chose a new primary care                  physician.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">After                  two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing &#8220;fairly                  well&#8221; for my age.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">A                  little concerned about that comment, I couldn&#8217;t resist asking                  him, &#8220;Do you think I&#8217;ll live to be                  80?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">He                  asked, &#8220;Do you smoke tobacco or drink alcoholic                  beverages?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;No,&#8221;                  I replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t do drugs, either.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">Then                  he asked, &#8220;Do you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued                  ribs?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">I                  said, &#8220;No, my other doctor said that all red meat is                  unhealthy!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;Do                  you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, boating,                  fishing or relaxing at the beach?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;No,                  I don&#8217;t,&#8221; I said.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">He                  asked, &#8220;Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or have a lot of                  sex?&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;No,&#8221;                  I said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t do any of those                  things.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">He                  then looked at me and asked,<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: red;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-family: Arial;\"><span> <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;Then                  why do you give a shit?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gina: Some times you just have to ask yourself &#8221; Will I live to be 80?&#8221; I recently chose a new primary care physician. After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing &#8220;fairly well&#8221; for my age. A little concerned about that comment, I couldn&#8217;t resist asking him, &#8220;Do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,444,137],"tags":[777,321,785,783,61,778,784,786,45,782,1967,774,775,1941,780,781,776,779],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-medicine","category-retirement","tag-777","tag-alcohol","tag-beach","tag-boat","tag-doctor","tag-drugs","tag-fishing","tag-gamble","tag-gina","tag-golf","tag-medicine","tag-physician","tag-primary-care","tag-sex","tag-steak","tag-sun","tag-tests","tag-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}