Little Johnny trudged out of school with a heavy backpack and an even heavier heart. He had failed his math test\u2014spectacularly. The kind of fail that made the teacher\u2019s eyebrows disappear into her hairline. It was so bad that she immediately called home to alert his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That afternoon, Johnny stepped into the house only to find his dad waiting by the doorway, arms crossed, disappointment practically vibrating in the air.\u201cWhy did you fail your math test?\u201d his dad demanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnny paused, exhaled dramatically, and shrugged. \u201cWell, Dad,\u201d he said with a completely straight face, \u201cthe teacher made the questions way harder than the examples she gave us.\u201dHis father frowned. \u201cHow\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johnny grinned sheepishly. \u201cIn class, the examples were easy, like \u2018If you have one chocolate and I give you one more, how many do you have?\u2019<\/em> But on the test, she asked deep, complicated stuff like \u2018If I take one chocolate away after you gave it to me, why did I take it?\u2019<\/em> I don\u2019t know why she took it, Dad\u2014I\u2019m not a mind reader!\u201dHis dad stared at him for a moment\u2026 and then couldn\u2019t help but laugh.Johnny might not have passed math that day\u2014but he definitely passed comedy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Little Johnny trudged out of school with a heavy backpack and an even heavier heart. He had failed his math test\u2014spectacularly. The kind of fail that made… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":578,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13877,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}