{"id":5475,"date":"2025-08-22T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:58:23","slug":"honesty-is-the-best-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5475","title":{"rendered":"Honesty is the best policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"363\">Jack and his friend Bob went on a ski trip, but a sudden blizzard forced them to stop at a farm. A recently widowed woman answered the door and, worried about gossip, refused to let them stay in her house. Instead, Jack assured her they\u2019d sleep in the barn, and she agreed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"365\" data-end=\"525\">The storm cleared by morning, and the two went on to enjoy their ski weekend. Months later, Jack received a letter from a lawyer\u2014representing that same widow.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"612\">Confused, he went to Bob.<br data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"555\" \/>\u201cRemember that widow we met?\u201d Jack asked.<br data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"599\" \/>Bob nodded.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"614\" data-end=\"718\">\u201cDid you sneak out during the night and visit her?\u201d Jack pressed.<br data-start=\"679\" data-end=\"682\" \/>Bob, embarrassed, admitted he had.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"822\">\u201cAnd did you give her my name instead of yours?\u201d Jack asked.<br data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"783\" \/>Bob turned red. \u201cYeah\u2026 I did. Sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"893\">Jack sighed. \u201cWell, she just passed away\u2014and left\u00a0<em data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"878\">me<\/em>\u00a0everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jack and his friend Bob went on a ski trip, but a sudden blizzard forced them to stop at a farm. A recently widowed woman <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5475\" title=\"Honesty is the best policy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5475","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\/5475","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=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5477,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions\/5477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}