{"id":4349,"date":"2010-03-21T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2010-03-21T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T05:01:34","slug":"a-spoon-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/a-spoon-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"A spoon perhaps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4348\" title=\"salesman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/salesman.jpg\" alt=\"salesman\" width=\"437\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A vacuum salesman appeared at the door of an old lady\u2019s cottage and, without allowing the woman to speak, rushed into the living room and threw a large bag of dirt all over her clean carpet. He said, \u201cIf this new vacuum doesn\u2019t pick up every bit of dirt then I\u2019ll eat all the dirt.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The woman, who by this time was losing her patience, said, \u201cSir, if I had enough money to buy that thing, I would have paid my electricity bill before they cut it off. Now, what would you prefer, a spoon or a knife and fork?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Moral o\u2019 the day: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hubris\" target=\"_blank\">Hubris<\/a> ends in failure; pride precedes a fall.<\/span><em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/filipspagnoli.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vacuum salesman appeared at the door of an old lady\u2019s cottage and, without allowing the woman to speak, rushed into the living room and threw a large bag of dirt all over her clean carpet. He said, \u201cIf this new vacuum doesn\u2019t pick up every bit of dirt then I\u2019ll eat all the dirt.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}