{"id":3131,"date":"2011-05-21T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:32:30","slug":"how-to-tell-the-sex-of-a-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3131","title":{"rendered":"How to tell the sex of a fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From humor consultant Ellen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very interesting &#8211; I had never heard this before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201538e9748d5970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/6a00d834525a2f69e201538e97493c970b-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12119\" title=\"Flies playing\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; She asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hunting flies&#8221; He responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Oh. killing any?&#8221; She asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yep. 3 males.&nbsp;2 females.&#8221; He replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intrigued, she asked, &#8220;How can you tell them apart?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;He responded &#8220;3 were on a beer can. 2 were on the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From humor consultant Ellen. Very interesting &#8211; I had never heard this before. &nbsp; A&nbsp;woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter. &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; She asked. &#8220;Hunting flies&#8221; He responded. &#8220;Oh. killing any?&#8221; She asked. &#8220;Yep. 3 males.&nbsp;2 females.&#8221; He replied. Intrigued, she asked, &#8220;How can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12120,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions\/12120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}