{"id":305,"date":"2012-09-04T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2012-09-03T18:09:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:09:02","slug":"barn-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/09\/barn-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCN1007.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSCN1007\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSCN1007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSCN1007_thumb.jpg?resize=391%2C294\" width=\"391\" height=\"294\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re looking at the second largest cave room in Colorado. It\u2019s called \u201cThe Barn\u201d, and tourists consider it one of the highlights of my guided cave tours at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park.<\/p>\n<p>One joke I like to tell at the top of the barn is when we are standing at the top of the stair steps just about to go clomping down to the bottom: <\/p>\n<p>I shine my flashlight on a bench and say, \u201cThis feature is called, \u2018The Bench.\u2019 It was discovered 12 years ago by carpenters in the cave. If you don\u2019t want do go down to the bottom of the barn (that\u2019s 127 stair steps down, 33,685 stair steps back up) you may sit on \u201cThe Bench\u201d and listen to the water drip until we come back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laughter.<\/p>\n<p>As we head down the stairs, I invariably will see someone who decides to sit out the walk on \u201cThe Bench.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPractical joke\u201d takes on a new meaning on my tours.<\/p>\n<p>I love sitting here and listening to the water drip in the cave. I wonder if the people on my tour are having a nice time down there without me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re looking at the second largest cave room in Colorado. It\u2019s called \u201cThe Barn\u201d, and tourists consider it one of the highlights of my guided cave tours at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park. One joke I like to tell at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/09\/barn-joke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[897,65],"tags":[1251,1255,833,395,1254,1052,1253,1124,1256,1252,733],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-2","category-just-plain-fun","tag-barn","tag-carpenter","tag-cave-tours","tag-colorado","tag-flashlight","tag-glenwood-caverns-adventure-park","tag-highlights","tag-joke","tag-practical-joke","tag-second-largest-cave-room","tag-the-barn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5nY-4V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}