{"id":81795,"date":"2024-09-20T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=81795"},"modified":"2024-09-20T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:34:38","slug":"an-elderly-man-came-into-a-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/an-elderly-man-came-into-a-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"An Elderly Man Came Into A Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man came into a shop with a \u2018Salesman Wanted\u2019 sign in a window.\n</p><p>He went up to the owner &amp; said, \u201cI-I-I w-w-wanna-t the j-joooob-b.\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if this job would suit you because of your speaking impediment,\u201d said the owner.\n</p><p>\u201cI h-h-havvve a w-wi-wiiiife &amp; s-s-s-six k-kkkids, iiii-I re-really neeeed thi-thi-this j-j-job!\u201d said the man.\n</p><p>\u201cO.K. Here are three Bibles. Go out &amp; sell them.\u201d said the owner.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-81798 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/An-Elderly-Man-Came-Into-A-Shop.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"564\"' height='\"1065\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/An-Elderly-Man-Came-Into-A-Shop.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'>\n</p><p>So the man went out &amp; came back an hour later.\n</p><p>\u201cH-here-sss your m-m-money.\u201d said the elderly man.\n</p><p>The owner was impressed, so he gave the man a dozen more Bibles &amp; sent him out.\n</p><p>The man came back in two hours &amp; said,\n</p><p>\u201cHer-ers y-yooour m-m-money.\u201d\n</p><p>The owner said,\n</p><p>\u201cThis is fantastic. You sold more Bibles in three hours than anyone has sold in a week. Tell me, what do you say to the people when they come to the door?\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cW-welllll,\u201d said the old man,\n</p><p>\u201cI r-r-ring the d-door bell, a-a-and s-s-say \u2018H-Hel-Hello, M-m-maaaaddam, d-d-do you w-w- want t-t-t-to buy thi-thi-this B-B-Bible, oooor d-d-do y-you w-w-want m\u2019me t-toooo read it t-t-t-t-to you?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>An elderly man came into a shop with a \u2018Salesman Wanted\u2019 sign in a window. He went up to the owner &amp; said, \u201cI-I-I w-w-wanna-t the j-joooob-b.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know if this job would suit you because of your speaking impediment,\u201d said the owner. \u201cI h-h-havvve a w-wi-wiiiife &amp; s-s-s-six k-kkkids, iiii-I re-really neeeed thi-thi-this &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":81798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81795","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81799,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81795\/revisions\/81799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>