{"id":24519,"date":"2026-10-04T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24519"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T09:50:01","slug":"a-man-owned-a-small-ranch-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24519","title":{"rendered":"A man owned a small ranch in Montana."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5938-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5938-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_5938.jpeg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\nA man owned a small ranch in Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The Montana WorkForce Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,\u201d the agent demanded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d replied the farmer, \u201cthere is my farmhand who has been with me for 3 years. I pay him $200 a week, and he gets room and board for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $150 per week plus free room and board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen there\u2019s the half-wit. He works about 18 hours a day and handles about 90% of all the workarounds on the ranch. He earns about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the guy I wanna talk to\u2026 the half-wit,\u201d said the agent.<br \/>\n\u201cThat would be me,\u201d replied the rancher.<\/p>\n<p>LOL!!<br \/>\nHope this joke will make you smile! Have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man owned a small ranch in Montana. The Montana WorkForce Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24519","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\/24519","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=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24521,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions\/24521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}