{"id":1074,"date":"2014-08-13T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2014-08-13T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T09:26:49","slug":"the-use-of-riches-a-funny-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"THE USE OF RICHES &#8211; a funny story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">THE USE OF RICHES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In a sleeping car one morning not long ago a Vermont man was accosted by his neighbor opposite, who was putting on his shoes, with the inquiry: \u201cMy friend, allow me to inquire,\u00a0are you a rich man?\u201d The Vermonter looked astonished, but answered the pleasant-faced, tired-looking gentleman with a \u201cYes, I am tolerably rich.\u201d A pause occurred, and then came another question, \u201cHow rich are you?\u201d He answered, \u201cOh &#8211; about seven or eight hundred thousand. Why?\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d said the weary-looking old man, \u201cif I were as rich as you say you are, and went traveling, and snored as loud as I know you do, I\u2019d hire a whole sleeper all for myself every time I went traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">man was accosted by his neighbor opposite = the neighbour opposite addressed the man (greeted him)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u0430\u043c \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e!<\/p>\n<p>\u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE USE OF RICHES In a sleeping car one morning not long ago a Vermont man was accosted by his neighbor opposite, who was putting on his shoes, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[230,335,337,339],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-230","tag-335","tag-337","tag-339"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}