{"id":68932,"date":"2024-02-26T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=68932"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T09:16:27","slug":"the-last-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/the-last-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"The last hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Late one evening a Marine pulled into a little town, only to find that every hotel room was taken.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>When he finally got to the last hotel, he pleaded to the manager,\n<p><strong><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to have a room somewhere, or just a bed, I don\u2019t care where.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWell, I do have a double room with one occupant, a Navy guy,\u201d admitted the manager, <strong>\u201cand he might be glad to split the cost. <strong><span style='\"font-size:'>But to tell you the truth, he snores so loudly that people in adjoining rooms have complained in the past. I\u2019m not sure it\u2019d be worth it to you.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cNo problem,\u201d the tired Marine assured him, <strong>\u201cI\u2019ll take it.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The next morning the Marine came down to breakfast bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cHow did you sleep?\u201d asked the manager. <strong>\u201cNever better.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The manager was impressed <strong>\u201cNo problem with the other guy snoring, then?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cNope, I shut him up in no time,\u201d said the Marine.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cHow\u2019d you manage that?\u201d asked the manager.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cHe was already in bed, snoring away, when I came in the room,\u201d the Marine explained.\n<p><strong><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cI went over, gave him a kiss on the cheek, said, \u2018Goodnight, beautiful,\u2019 and after that he sat up all night watching me\u2026\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late one evening a Marine pulled into a little town, only to find that every hotel room was taken. When he finally got to the last hotel, he pleaded to the manager, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have a room somewhere, or just a bed, I don\u2019t care where.\u201d \u201cWell, I do have a double room with\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":68935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Late one evening a Marine pulled into a little town, only to find that every hotel room was taken. When he finally got to the last hotel...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jokes"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-last-hotel.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></strong></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></span></strong></strong></strong></span></p></span></strong></p></span></p></span></p>