{"id":23480,"date":"2026-11-10T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=23480"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:02:56","slug":"a-daunting-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=23480","title":{"rendered":"A Daunting Task."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent.<\/p>\n<p>Needing to have an urgent work problem resolved, he dialled the employee\u2019s home phone number and was greeted by a child\u2019s whispered, \u201cHello.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs your Daddy home?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d whispered the small voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay I talk with him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The child whispered, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, \u201cIs your mommy there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay I talk with her?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again the small voice whispered, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoping there was someone with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, \u201cIs anyone else there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d whispered the child, \u201ca policeman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee\u2019s home, the boss asked, \u201cMay I speak with the policeman?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, he\u2019s busy,\u201d whispered the child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusy doing what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalking to mommy and daddy and the fireman,\u201d came the whispered answer.<\/p>\n<p>Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, \u201cWhat is that noise?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA helicopter,\u201d answered the whispering voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is going on there?\u201d demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>Again, whispering, the child answered, \u201cThe search team just landed a helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alarmed, confused, and a little frustrated, the boss asked, \u201cWhat are they searching for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle, \u201cMe!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[totalpoll id=\u201d21944\u2033]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent. Needing to have an urgent work problem resolved, he dialled the employee\u2019s home <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=23480\" title=\"A Daunting Task.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23480","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\/23480","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=23480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23482,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions\/23482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}