{"id":3403,"date":"2016-09-13T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2017-11-01T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:04:13","slug":"the-second-best-ford-hall-practical-joke-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/the-second-best-ford-hall-practical-joke-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second-Best Ford Hall Practical Joke Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Names have been changed to protect the reputations of the guilty.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once upon a midnight dreary not too many years ago, a Ford Hall dorm master \u2013 specifically, the occupant of an apartment overlooking the Pond and Victory Bell \u2013 was contemplating bedtime.\u00a0 The dorm was quiet, the inmates apparently enjoying their guileless dreams, when all at once . . .<\/p>\n

\"912_1513-lr\"CLANG!\u00a0 CLANG!\u00a0 CLANG!\u00a0 The teacher \u2013 we\u2019ll call him Mr. Ford \u2013 sprang from his bed and looked out the window, where he could see a shadowy figure ringing the Victory Bell.\u00a0 Mr. Ford threw open the window.\u00a0 \u201cNow cut that out,\u201d he shouted \u2013 or words to that effect.<\/p>\n

CLANG!\u00a0 CLANG!\u00a0 The ringing continued.\u00a0 So Mr. Ford threw on his bathrobe, descended several flights of stairs, and emerged to confront the misguided Quasimodo.\u00a0 \u201cPlease stop,\u201d called Mr. Ford \u2013 or words to that effect.<\/p>\n

CLANG! Mr. Ford had had enough.\u00a0 \u201cWhat the heck is wrong with you\u201d (or words, etc.), he shouted, as he grabbed the bellringer\u2019s arm and spun him around.<\/p>\n

The arm came off.\u00a0<\/em> \u201cAaughh!\u201d screamed Mr. Ford, as gales of laughter descended from the upper stories.\u00a0 The villains had constructed a straw effigy, tied its arm to the ringer, and operated the bell by means of a length of nylon fishline strung from a window.<\/p>\n

And what was the very best Ford Hall Prank Ever?\u00a0 We\u2019re going to save that for another day.\u00a0 Subscribe to From the Archives<\/em> and you\u2019ll never miss a post!<\/p>\n

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Names have been changed to protect the reputations of the guilty. Once upon a midnight dreary not too many years ago, a Ford Hall dorm master \u2013 specifically, the occupant of an apartment overlooking the Pond and Victory Bell \u2013 was contemplating bedtime.\u00a0 The dorm was quiet, the inmates apparently enjoying their guileless dreams, when … Continue reading The Second-Best Ford Hall Practical Joke Ever<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[453,43],"tags":[255,42,256,251,421],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","category-williston-northampton-school","tag-bad-behavior","tag-ford-hall","tag-practical-jokes","tag-student-humor","tag-victory-bell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}