{"id":550,"date":"2009-04-29T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelgreenlief.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2009-04-29T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:55:58","slug":"50-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2009\/04\/29\/50-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"$50 Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin just sent this to me in an email.  I thought it was funny.  No I&#8217;m not a dedicated Republican or Democrat either.  I vote for the person not the party, just so you know.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently asked my friend&#8217;s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, &#8216;If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? &#8216;She replied, &#8216;I&#8217;d give food and houses to all the homeless people.&#8217;  Her parents beamed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Wow&#8230;what a worthy goal&#8217;, I told her. &#8216;But you don&#8217;t have to wait until you&#8217;re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I&#8217;ll pay you $50. Then I&#8217;ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, &#8216;Why doesn&#8217;t the homeless guy come over and do the work,and you can just pay him the $50?&#8217;  I said, &#8216;Welcome to the Republican Party&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents still aren&#8217;t speaking to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin just sent this to me in an email. I thought it was funny. No I&#8217;m not a dedicated Republican or Democrat either. I vote for the person not the party, just so you know. I recently asked my friend&#8217;s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2009\/04\/29\/50-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$50 Lesson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-service","category-government","category-life","category-work-and-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}