{"id":76651,"date":"2024-08-13T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=76651"},"modified":"2024-08-13T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:05:56","slug":"tactless-sergeant-has-to-deliver-the-shocking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/tactless-sergeant-has-to-deliver-the-shocking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactless sergeant has to deliver the shocking news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one such story.\n</p><p>The Captain called the Sergeant in. \u201cSarge, I just got a telegram that Private Jones\u2019 mother died yesterday.\u00a0 You better go tell him and send him in to see me.\u201d\n</p><p>So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation and lines up all the troops.\n</p><p>\u201cListen up, men,\u201d says the Sergeant. \u201cJohnson, report to the mess hall for KP.\u00a0 Smith, report to Personnel to sign some papers.\u00a0 The rest of you men report to the motor pool for maintenance.\n</p><p>Oh by the way, Jones, your mother died, report to the commander.\u201d\n</p><p>Later that day the Captain called the Sergeant into his office.\n</p><p>\u201cHey, Sarge, that was a pretty cold way to inform Jones his mother died.\u00a0 Couldn\u2019t you be a bit more tactful, next time?\u201d\n</p><div class='\"code-block' code-block-3><ins class='\"adsbygoogle\"' data-ad-format='\"fluid\"' data-ad-layout-key='\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"' data-ad-client='\"ca-pub-9115297269986575\"' data-ad-slot='\"1154302906\"' data-adsbygoogle-status='\"done\"' data-ad-status='\"unfilled\"'>\n<div id='\"aswift_2_host\"'><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-76652 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/08%5C/378272411_167581463051134_916892491594868624_n.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"594\"' height='\"453\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/378272411_167581463051134_916892491594868624_n.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'>\n<p>\n</p><p>&nbsp;\n</p><p>\u201cYes, sir,\u201d answered the Sarge.\n</p><p>A few months later, the Captain called the Sergeant in again and says, \u201cSarge, I just got a telegram that Private McGrath\u2019s mother died.\u00a0 You\u2019d better go tell him and send him in to see me.\u00a0 This time be more tactful.\u201d\n</p><p>So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation.\n</p><p>\u201cOK men, fall in and listen up.\n</p><p>Everybody with a mother, take two steps forward.\n</p><p>NOT SO FAST, McGrath!\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>This is one such story. The Captain called the Sergeant in. \u201cSarge, I just got a telegram that Private Jones\u2019 mother died yesterday.\u00a0 You better go tell him and send him in to see me.\u201d So the Sergeant calls for his morning formation and lines up all the troops. \u201cListen up, men,\u201d says the Sergeant. &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":76652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76654,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76651\/revisions\/76654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></ins></div>