{"id":25555,"date":"2013-02-18T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=25555"},"modified":"2013-02-10T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T16:27:02","slug":"a-man-and-his-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/02\/a-man-and-his-money\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man and His Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser and loved money more than anything else. He was dying and said to his wife,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I die, I want you to put all my money in the coffin with me. I want to take it to the afterlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He made her promise ans swear it.<\/p>\n<p>He died, was placed in the casket. His wife was sitting there in black with her girlfriend sitting next to her.<\/p>\n<p>When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, she said, &#8220;Wait a minute!&#8221; She had a box, walked over and put it in the casket right before the final curtain.<\/p>\n<p>Then the undertakers locked the coffin and rolled it away. Her girlfriend was startled: &#8220;Girl, I know you weren&#8217;t fool enough to put all that money in there with your dead husband!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;Listen, I believe in God. I can&#8217;t go back on my word. I promised him that I was gonna put the money in the casket with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You mean to tell me you really put his money in the coffin!?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sure did,&#8221; said the wife. &#8220;I wrote him a check.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser and loved money more than anything else.<\/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-25555","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\/25555","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=25555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}