{"id":15872,"date":"2026-05-04T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15872"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:02:18","slug":"700-in-a-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15872","title":{"rendered":"$700 In A Wallet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"408\">A man finds a wallet with $700. Later, he sees a notice: a rich man lost a wallet and offers $50 reward. When he returns it, the rich man accuses him of taking money, claiming it had $750. They go to court. The judge says if the rich man\u2019s wallet had $750, then this one isn\u2019t his\u2014and since an honest finder wouldn\u2019t return it if he were a thief, the wallet goes to the poor man until the real owner appears.A man gives a beggar $2 daily, then reduces it to $1.50, then $1. When asked why, he says he\u2019s paying for his kids\u2019 college. The beggar replies, \u201cI hope you\u2019re not planning to educate them all at my expense!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A man finds a wallet with $700. Later, he sees a notice: a rich man lost a wallet and offers $50 reward. When he returns <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=15872\" title=\"$700 In A Wallet.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15875,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions\/15875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}