{"id":74087,"date":"2024-07-24T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=74087"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:18:17","slug":"an-old-government-official-wouldnt-accept-a-car-as-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/an-old-government-official-wouldnt-accept-a-car-as-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"An Old Government Official Wouldn\u2019t Accept A Car As A Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contractor wanted to give the government official a sports car. The official objected, saying:\n</p><p>\u201cSir, common decency and my basic sense of honor would never permit me to accept a gift like that.\u201d\n</p><p>The contractor said:\n</p><p>\u201cI quite understand. Suppose we do this: I\u2019ll sell you the car for ten dollars.\u201d\n</p><p>The official thought for a moment and said:\n</p><p>\u201cIn that case, I\u2019ll take two.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>The contractor wanted to give the government official a sports car. The official objected, saying: \u201cSir, common decency and my basic sense of honor would never permit me to accept a gift like that.\u201d The contractor said: \u201cI quite understand. Suppose we do this: I\u2019ll sell you the car for ten dollars.\u201d The official thought &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":74088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[676,1183],"tags":[370,1192,1180],"class_list":["post-74087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes","category-funny","tag-funny","tag-funny-joke","tag-old-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74089,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74087\/revisions\/74089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>