{"id":1896,"date":"2011-05-21T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2011-05-21T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T16:17:37","slug":"wyoming-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Received this from one of my elders.<\/p>\n

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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York  scientists  found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years  ago.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: “California archaeologists, finding of 200-year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.”<\/p>\n

One week later, a local newspaper in Wyoming reported the following:
“After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Worland , Fred, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing.   He has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Wyoming had already gone wireless.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Received this from one of my elders. After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York  scientists  found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years  ago. Not to be outdone by the New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[376,19422],"tags":[1858942,48579601,34940943],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-wyoming","tag-humor-2","tag-postaday2011","tag-wyoming-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}