{"id":167,"date":"2006-02-20T21:42:33","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/02\/20\/todays-beggar\/"},"modified":"2006-02-23T21:46:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T16:16:57","slug":"todays-beggar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/02\/20\/todays-beggar\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Beggar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him Rs. 10 and that Continues for a year. Then suddenly the daily donation changes to Rs. 7, 50.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Well,&#8221; the beggar thinks, &#8220;it&#8217;s still better than nothing.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A year passes in this way until the man&#8217;s daily donation suddenly becomes Rs. 5.<br \/>\n&#8220;What&#8217;s going on now?&#8221; the beggar asks his donor. &#8220;<em>First you give me Rs. 10 every day, then Rs. 7.50 and now only Rs. 5. What&#8217;s the problem?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; the man says, &#8220;last year my eldest son went to university. It&#8217;s very expensive, so I had to cut costs. This year my eldest daughter also went to university, so I had to cut my expenses even further.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And how many children do you have?&#8221; the beggar asks.<br \/>\n&#8220;Four,&#8221; the man replies. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Well,&#8221; says the beggar, &#8220;I hope you don&#8217;t plan to educate them all at my expense.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him Rs. 10 and that Continues for a year. Then suddenly the daily donation changes to Rs. 7, 50. &#8220;Well,&#8221; the beggar thinks, &#8220;it&#8217;s still better than nothing.&#8221; A year passes in this way until the man&#8217;s daily donation suddenly becomes Rs. 5. &#8220;What&#8217;s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}