{"id":75882,"date":"2024-05-07T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T02:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/?p=75882"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T02:55:29","slug":"better-than-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/better-than-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The man took out his wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, &ldquo;<strong>If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cNo, I had to stop drinking years ago,\u201d the homeless man replied.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWill you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?\u201d the man asked.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t waste time fishing,\u201d the homeless man said. <strong>\u201cI need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWill you spend this on greens fees at a golf course instead of food?\u201d the man asked.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cAre you NUTS!\u201d replied the homeless man. <strong>\u201cI haven\u2019t played golf in 20 years!\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWill you spend the money on a woman in the red light district instead of food?\u201d the man asked.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWhat disease would I get for ten lousy bucks?\u201d exclaimed the homeless man.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWell,\u201d said the man, <strong>\u201cI\u2019m not going to give you the money. Instead, I\u2019m going to take you home for a terrific dinner cooked by my wife.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The homeless man was astounded. <strong>\u201cWon\u2019t your wife be furious with you for doing that? I know I\u2019m dirty, and I probably smell pretty disgusting.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The man replied, <strong>\u201cThat\u2019s okay. It\u2019s important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up beer, fishing, golf, and s**x.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner. The man took out his wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, &ldquo;If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":75885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jokes"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Better-than-money.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p>