{"id":3882,"date":"2026-04-04T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:13:40","slug":"a-man-came-home-from-work-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"A man came home from work one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A man came home from work one day to find his wife on the front porch with her bags packed.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"todaynewz.co.uk_responsive_1\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/todaynewz.co.uk\/todaynewz.co.uk_responsive_1_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018Just where the heck do you think you\u2019re going!\u2019, said the man.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"todaynewz.co.uk_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/todaynewz.co.uk\/todaynewz.co.uk_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m going to Las Vegas, said the wife, \u2018I just found out I can get $400 a night for what I give you for free!<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"todaynewz.co.uk_responsive_3\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/todaynewz.co.uk\/todaynewz.co.uk_responsive_3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018The man said, \u2018Wait a minute!\u2019, and then ran inside the house only to come back a few minutes later with his suitcases in hand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2018Where the heck are you going?\u2019, said the wife.<\/p>\n<p>The man said,<strong>\u00a0\u2018I want to see how you\u2019re gonna live on $800 a year!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A lawyer, who had a wife and 12 children,<\/h2>\n<p>needed to move because his rental agreement was terminated by the owner, who wanted to reoccupy the home.<\/p>\n<p>When he said he had 12 children, no one would rent a home to him because they felt that the children would destroy the place.<\/p>\n<p>So he sent his wife for a walk to the cemetery with 11 of their kids.<\/p>\n<p>He took the remaining one with him to see rental homes with the real estate agent.<\/p>\n<p>He loved one of the homes and the price was right. The agent asked, \u201cHow many children do you have?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He answered, \u201cTwelve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agent asked, \u201cWhere are the others?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer, with his best courtroom sad look, answered, \u201cThey\u2019re in the cemetery with their mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORAL: It\u2019s not necessary to lie; one has only to choose the right words.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man came home from work one day to find his wife on the front porch with her bags packed. \u2018Just where the heck do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindfulescapades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}