{"id":1772,"date":"2008-03-21T16:53:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T23:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2008\/03\/20\/a-mathematician-an-accountant-and-an-economist\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T00:57:24","slug":"a-mathematician-an-accountant-and-an-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/a-mathematician-an-accountant-and-an-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"A mathematician, an accountant and an economist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/netec.mcc.ac.uk\/JokEc.html\">Economist Jokes<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.  <\/p>\n<p>The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks &#8220;What do two plus two equal?&#8221; The mathematician replies &#8220;Four.&#8221; The interviewer asks &#8220;Four, exactly?&#8221; The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says &#8220;Yes, four, exactly.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question &#8220;What do two plus two equal?&#8221; The accountant says &#8220;On average, four &#8211; give or take ten percent, but on average, four.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question &#8220;What do two plus two equal?&#8221; The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says &#8220;What do you want it to equal?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The economist got the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Jokes A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job. The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks &#8220;What do two plus two equal?&#8221; The mathematician replies &#8220;Four.&#8221; The interviewer asks &#8220;Four, exactly?&#8221; The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says &#8220;Yes, four, exactly.&#8221; Then the interviewer calls in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/a-mathematician-an-accountant-and-an-economist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A mathematician, an accountant and an economist&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-sA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}