{"id":4137,"date":"2025-12-30T06:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:33:57","slug":"the-spaghetti-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/?p=4137","title":{"rendered":"The Spaghetti Postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A wealthy businessman had been having an affair with a beautiful Italian woman for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One evening, during one of their secret getaways, she nervously confessed, \u201cI\u2019m pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_1006\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latellagelato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-2-e1762004819297.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1006\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The man nearly dropped his wine glass. \u201cListen,\u201d he said, lowering his voice, \u201cI can\u2019t let this ruin my marriage or my reputation. I\u2019ll give you a large sum of money if you return to Italy and have the baby there. I\u2019ll take care of all the child support until the child turns eighteen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She agreed, but before leaving, she asked, \u201cHow will you know when the baby is born?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thought for a moment, then smiled. \u201cSend me a postcard. Just write the word&nbsp;<em>\u2018Spaghetti\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;on the back, and I\u2019ll know what it means.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_1008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latellagelato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/345.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine months passed. One afternoon, he came home from work to find his wife holding a postcard with a confused look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHoney,\u201d she said, \u201cyou got a strange card from Italy today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to act casual, he said, \u201cOh, that must be some business thing. Just give it here\u2014I\u2019ll explain later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She handed it over. He glanced at the card, turned ghostly white, and fainted on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the postcard were the words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSpaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealthy businessman had been having an affair with a beautiful Italian woman for several years. One evening, during one of their secret getaways, she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/574557744_1355733456209352_6525109835310050045_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}