{"id":7540,"date":"2013-02-10T09:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2013-01-27T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:38:10","slug":"sunday-punday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=7540","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Punday 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A wagon train was heading west using the southern route to the gold fields of California.\u00a0 They had hired an experienced guide named Al and were making good time.\u00a0 The going was rough but they hadn’t run out of water or food yet and the people hopes were high.<\/p>\n

Then just past Santa Fe their luck ran out.\u00a0 They were attacked by a large band of Apaches and before they could get the wagons circled to begin defending themselves Al was shot through by an arrow.\u00a0 He was mortally wounded but still directed the pioneers in mounting a defense and before they lost too many horses or people the Apache were driven off.<\/p>\n

Al was laid on a pallet in the middle of the circle and the grateful leader of the people he had saved\u00a0 said “Al, it looks like you’re a goner.\u00a0 Is there anything that we can do for you to show how grateful we are?”<\/p>\n

Al answered weakly with his dying breaths “yes, I always wanted to have a town named after me.\u00a0 Can you give the town that grows in this place my name?<\/p>\n

And the people said “of course we will Mr Burquerque.”<\/p>\n

And that my friends is how Al..burquerque got it name.<\/p>\n

Short Bonus Pun:<\/p>\n

I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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