{"id":22656,"date":"2026-05-14T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=22656"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:20:22","slug":"a-strong-young-man-at-a-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=22656","title":{"rendered":"A Strong Young Man At A Construction Site."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3843-168x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3843-168x300.webp 168w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3843.webp 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><br \/>\nA strong young man at a construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength.<\/p>\n<p>He made a special case of making fun of one of the older workmen.<\/p>\n<p>After several minutes, the older worker had enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Why don\u2019t you put your money where your mouth is,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018 I will bet a week\u2019s wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to that building that you won\u2019t be able to wheel back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You\u2019re on, old man,\u2019 the braggart replied. Let\u2019s see you do it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles.<\/p>\n<p>Then, nodding to the young man, he said,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018All right, dumba$s, get in.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong young man at a construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone in a feat of strength. He made a special case of making&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22658,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22656\/revisions\/22658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}