{"id":4651,"date":"2026-07-15T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:53:41","slug":"end-of-the-school-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/end-of-the-school-year-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the School Year Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the end of the school year, and a kindergarten teacher was receiving gifts from her pupils. The florist&#8217;s son handed her a gift. She shook it, held it overhead, and said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I bet I know what it is. Flowers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s right!<\/em>&#8221; the boy said, <em>&#8220;But, how did you know?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Oh, just a wild guess<\/em>,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next pupil was the sweet shop owner&#8217;s daughter. The teacher held her gift overhead, shook it, and said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I bet I can guess what it is. A box of sweets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s right, but how did you know?<\/em>&#8221; asked the girl.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Oh, just a wild guess<\/em>,&#8221; said the teacher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next gift was from the son of the liquor store owner. The teacher held he package overhead, but it was leaking. She touched a drop off the leakage with her finger and put it to her tongue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Is it wine?&#8221;<\/em> she asked.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No<\/em>,&#8221; the boy replied, with some excitement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The teacher repeated the process, tasting a larger drop of the leakage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Is it champagne<\/em>?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No<\/em>,&#8221; the boy replied, with more excitement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The teacher took one more big taste before declaring,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I give up, what is it?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With great glee, the boy replied,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s a puppy! SURPRISE!&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the end of the school year, and a kindergarten teacher was receiving gifts from her pupils. The florist&#8217;s son handed her a gift. She shook it, held it overhead, and said, &#8220;I bet I know what it is. Flowers.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s right!&#8221; the boy said, &#8220;But, how did you know?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, just a wild &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/end-of-the-school-year-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;End of the School Year Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/member.parkinsonsrecovery.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}