{"id":25195,"date":"2026-11-13T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=25195"},"modified":"2026-11-13T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:50:27","slug":"an-elderly-man-in-a-bar-had-a-couple-of-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=25195","title":{"rendered":"An elderly man in a bar had a couple of beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man in a bar had a couple of beers, and the bartender told him he owed 4 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I paid, don\u2019t you remember?\u201d said the customer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay,\u201d said the bartender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you say you paid, you did.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly man then went outside and told a friend that the bartender couldn\u2019t keep track of his customers\u2019 bills.<\/p>\n<p>The second man then rushed in and ordered a beer.<\/p>\n<p>When it came time to pay he pulled the same stunt.<\/p>\n<p>The barkeep replied, \u201cIf you say you paid, I\u2019ll take your word for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soon the customer went into the street, saw an old friend, and told him how to get free drinks.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly man hurried into the bar and began to drink high balls when, suddenly, the bartender leaned over and said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, a funny thing happened in here tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were drinking beer, neither paid and both claimed that they did. The next guy who tries that is going to get punched right in the nose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t bother me with your troubles,\u201d the final patron responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust give me my change and I\u2019ll be on my way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man in a bar had a couple of beers, and the bartender told him he owed 4 dollars. \u201cBut I paid, don\u2019t you remember?\u201d said&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25196,"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-25195","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\/25195","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=25195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25197,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions\/25197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}