{"id":88242,"date":"2024-11-07T14:33:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/?p=88242"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T07:33:44","slug":"at-the-bus-stop-they-wait-patiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/at-the-bus-stop-they-wait-patiently\/","title":{"rendered":"At the bus stop, they wait patiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A husband and wife, accompanied by their nine children, wait at the bus stop. Soon, a blind man joins them.\n</p><p>When the bus arrives, it\u2019s too crowded for everyone to board except for the wife and the nine children. Left with no choice, the husband and the blind man opt to walk instead.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-88243 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/11%5C/465578976_973747894780767_3817228251640328306_n.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"1024\"' title='\"\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/465578976_973747894780767_3817228251640328306_n.jpg' https: sizes='\"auto,'>\n</p><p>As they walk, the husband becomes increasingly annoyed by the sound of the blind man\u2019s tapping stick on the sidewalk. Frustrated, he suggests, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick? That tapping sound is driving me crazy.\u201d\n</p><div id='\"quads-ad65618\"' class='\"quads-location' quads-ad65618 data-lazydelay='\"3000\"'>\n<div class='\"hb-ad-inarticle\"'>\n<div class='\"hb-ad-inner\"'>\n<div id='\"hbagency_space_130439\"' class='\"hbagency_cls\"'>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, the blind man retorts, \u201cIf you had put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick, we\u2019d be riding the bus, so shut the hell up.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>A husband and wife, accompanied by their nine children, wait at the bus stop. Soon, a blind man joins them. When the bus arrives, it\u2019s too crowded for everyone to board except for the wife and the nine children. Left with no choice, the husband and the blind man opt to walk instead. As they &hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":88243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88242","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=88242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88245,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88242\/revisions\/88245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></div></div></div></div>