{"id":24973,"date":"2026-11-02T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24973"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:31:08","slug":"a-man-walks-past-a-beggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=24973","title":{"rendered":"A man walks past a beggar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him $2, and that continues for a year.<br \/>\nThen suddenly the daily donation changes to $1.50.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d he thinks, \u201cit\u2019s always better than nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A year passes in this way until the man\u2019s daily donation suddenly becomes $1.00.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s going on now?\u201d The beggar asks his donor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst you give me $2 every day, then $1.50, and now only $1, what\u2019s the problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d the man says, \u201cmy eldest son went to college last year. It\u2019s very expensive so I had to cut the costs. This year my eldest daughter also went to university, so I had to cut my expenses even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd how many children do you have?\u201d Asks the beggar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour,\u201d the man replies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d says the beggar, \u201cI hope you don\u2019t plan to educate them all at my expense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him $2, and that continues for a year. Then suddenly the daily donation changes to $1.50. \u201cWell,\u201d&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24974,"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-24973","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\/24973","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=24973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24975,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions\/24975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}