{"id":16339,"date":"2011-12-19T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=16339"},"modified":"2011-12-12T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T15:21:40","slug":"role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/12\/role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a couple celebrating their 50th anniversary at the church&#8217;s marriage marathon, the minister asked Brother Ralph to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he managed to live with the same woman all these years.\u00a0 The husband replied to the audience,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I treated her with respect, spent money on her, but mostly I took her traveling on special occasions. For our 25th wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The minister then said, &#8220;What a terrific example you are to all husbands Ralph. Please tell the audience what you&#8217;re going to do for your wife on your 50th anniversary?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brother Ralph: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to go back to Beijing and fetch her home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a couple celebrating their 50th anniversary at the church&#8217;s marriage marathon, the minister asked Brother Ralph to take a few minutes and share some insight into how he managed to live with the same woman all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}