{"id":63746,"date":"2015-02-18T15:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63746"},"modified":"2023-09-15T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T12:21:19","slug":"i-did-it-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63746","title":{"rendered":"I Did It For You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend opens up a bottle of kosher peanuts and insists I take some.<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;No thank you.&#8221;<br \/>\nFriend: &#8220;I did it for you.&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;That&#8217;s what Jesus said on the Cross. And again, no thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* I have a Japanese friend who will never accept any &#8220;free&#8221; offer because he says there&#8217;s got to be a catch there. He also won&#8217;t sign up for any club card and limits his credit card use. Needless to say, his net worth is well over a million dollars beyond mine.<\/p>\n<p>* My dentist insisted that I get something very cold up against my new filling as soon as possible (the cavity went right up the nerve), so a Jew takes me to frozen yogurt to celebrate my new filling. He insists I take three generous free samples before making my selection. My WASP background rebels at this freeloading. I prefer fill up the cup that he&#8217;s paying for. It costs him $5. He asks me if I want to bring a bucket to fill up on his dime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend opens up a bottle of kosher peanuts and insists I take some. Luke: &#8220;No thank you.&#8221; Friend: &#8220;I did it for you.&#8221; Luke: &#8220;That&#8217;s what Jesus said on the Cross. And again, no thank you.&#8221; * I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151936,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63746\/revisions\/151936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}