{"id":11053,"date":"2011-04-01T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/04\/01\/the-funniest-joke-ive-ever-told-to-a-three-year-old\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T07:00:01","slug":"the-funniest-joke-ive-ever-told-to-a-three-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110401-01\/?p=11053","title":{"rendered":"The funniest joke I&#039;ve ever told (to a three-year-old)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tested this joke on several children ages three and four, and it never fails.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> There were two kittens walking down the street, and one of them fell on its butt! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I developed this joke for one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/04\/27\/9570320.aspx\"> honorary nieces<\/a>. She had just started to learn about joke-telling and asked me to tell her a joke. One of the keys to joke-telling is to know your audience: A three-year-old won&#8217;t have the attention span for a longer joke, and subtlety and observational humor won&#8217;t work either. It&#8217;s got to be short and direct. She thought kittens were cute, and falling on one&#8217;s butt was funny, so I figured, hey, let me combine the two.<\/p>\n<p> When I told this joke, she fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. I had a winner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tested this joke on several children ages three and four, and it never fails. There were two kittens walking down the street, and one of them fell on its butt! I developed this joke for one of my honorary nieces. She had just started to learn about joke-telling and asked me to tell her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-11053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;ve tested this joke on several children ages three and four, and it never fails. There were two kittens walking down the street, and one of them fell on its butt! I developed this joke for one of my honorary nieces. She had just started to learn about joke-telling and asked me to tell her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}