{"id":2240,"date":"2004-12-01T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/12\/tom-swifties.html"},"modified":"2004-12-01T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T02:15:00","slug":"tom-swifties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/12\/tom-swifties.html","title":{"rendered":"Tom Swifties"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>1) \u201cI can\u2019t believe I ate that whole pineapple!\u201d Tom said, dolefully.<br>\n<br>2) \u201cThat\u2019s the last time I\u2019ll ever pet a lion,\u201d Tom said, offhandedly.<br>\n<br>3) \u201cI\u2019ll never sleep on the railroad tracks again!\u201d Tom said, beside<br>\n<br>himself.<br>\n<br>4) \u201cThat\u2019s the third electric shock I\u2019ve gotten this week!\u201d Tom said,<br>\n<br>revolted.<br>\n<br>5) \u201cI\u2019m never anywhere on time,\u201d Tom related.<br>\n<br>6) \u201cI won\u2019t let a flat tire get me down,\u201d Tom said, without despair.<br>\n<br>7) \u201cThat car you sold me has defective steering!\u201d Tom said,<br>\n<br>straightforwardly.<br>\n<br>8) \u201cI\u2019ve been on a diet,\u201d Tom expounded.<br>\n<br>9) \u201cI\u2019ll have to send that telegram again,\u201d Tom said, remorsefully.<br>\n<br>10) \u201cI keep banging my head on things,\u201d Tom said, bashfully.<br>\n<br>11) \u201cLook at that jailbird climb down that wall,\u201d Tom observed with<br>\n<br>condescension.<br>\n<br>12) \u201cI remember the midwest being flatter than this,\u201d Tom explained.<br>\n<br>13) \u201cThat\u2019s the third time my teacher changed my grade,\u201d Tom remarked.<br>\n<br>14) \u201cI\u2019ll have to dig another ditch around that castle,\u201d Tom sighed,<br>\n<br>remotely.<br>\n<br>15) \u201cI\u2019ve lived through a lot of windstorms,\u201d Tom regaled.<br>\n<br>17) \u201cI haven\u2019t caught a fish all day!\u201d Tom said, without debate.<br>\n<br>18) \u201cThat mink coat is on wrong side out,\u201d Tom inferred.<\/p>\n<p>Regards \u2013 Tom<\/p>\n<p><em>Forgive me \u2026 but, having rec\u2019d them from my father-in-law, had to blog.<\/em><br><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) \u201cI can\u2019t believe I ate that whole pineapple!\u201d Tom said, dolefully. 2) \u201cThat\u2019s the last time I\u2019ll ever pet a lion,\u201d Tom said, offhandedly. 3) \u201cI\u2019ll never sleep on the railroad tracks again!\u201d Tom said, beside himself. 4) \u201cThat\u2019s the third electric shock I\u2019ve gotten this week!\u201d Tom said, revolted. 5) \u201cI\u2019m never anywhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Swifties<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1) &quot;I can&#039;t believe I ate that whole pineapple!&quot; Tom said, dolefully. 2) &quot;That&#039;s the last time I&#039;ll ever pet a lion,&quot; Tom said, offhandedly. 3) &quot;I&#039;ll\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/12\/tom-swifties.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Swifties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1) &quot;I can&#039;t believe I ate that whole pineapple!&quot; Tom said, dolefully. 2) &quot;That&#039;s the last time I&#039;ll ever pet a lion,&quot; Tom said, offhandedly. 3) &quot;I&#039;ll\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/12\/tom-swifties.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orthodixie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-12-01T02:15:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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