{"id":340,"date":"2021-03-06T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/?p=340"},"modified":"2021-02-24T22:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:47:51","slug":"never-underesimate-my-grandfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/never-underesimate-my-grandfather\/","title":{"rendered":"Never underesimate my grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My grandfather had owned his large farm in Louisiana for many years. Right at the back of the farm there was a large pond that was ideal for swimming. He had fixed it up real nice with picnic tables, horseshoe&nbsp;courts and some apple and peach trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One evening he decides to go down to the pond, to look it over, as he hadn\u2019t been down there for a while. Before setting off, he grabs a five-gallon bucket as he decides&nbsp;he\u2019ll bring back some fruit. As he nears the pond, he can hear voices shouting and laughing with glee. Clearly someone is having a good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he got closer, he can see a bunch of young women who are clearly skinny-dipping in his pond. He makes the women aware of his presence and immediately they all swim over to the far end. One of the women then shouts, \u201c<em>We\u2019re not coming out until you leave mister!<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He replied, \u201c<em>Ladies, I didn\u2019t come down here to watch you swim naked or make you get out of the pond. You carry on.<\/em>\u201c The wily old timer then holds up his bucket and says, \u201c<em>I just came down here to feed the alligators!<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moral of the story:<\/strong>&nbsp;Never underestimate an old man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandfather had owned his large farm in Louisiana for many years. Right at the back of the farm there was a large pond that was ideal for swimming. He had fixed it up real nice with picnic tables, horseshoe&nbsp;courts and some apple and peach trees. One evening he decides to go down to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-lessons","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-wiseguy.com\/Readzzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}