{"id":485,"date":"2005-09-19T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T23:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=485"},"modified":"2005-09-19T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T23:09:59","slug":"knowing-where-to-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Knowing where to touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer is haying and his old, decrepit hay rake breaks down. <\/p>\n<p>A passerby notices the farmer messing with the complex machine and offers to help &#8220;For $500 I&#8217;ll fix it&#8221; The farmer has to have his hay in, and will lose evrerything if he doesn&#8217;t. he gives the stranger his $500, and the stranger walks around the machine, looks intently, and pushes a tangled rake tine. The machine begins to work and soon the farmer has finished his haying. <\/p>\n<p>Later, after the hay is up, the farmer looks at the stranger, and says &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s done but I don&#8217;t believe I paid you $500 to barely touch my machine&#8221;. The stranger says &#8220;I fixed the machine free. You paid me $500 to know where to push.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn the past four days, I&#8217;ve been told by four different people, that I know where to push. I won&#8217;t elaborate beyond that. Nice to know I still have the touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A farmer is haying and his old, decrepit hay rake breaks down. A passerby notices the farmer messing with the complex machine and offers to help &#8220;For $500 I&#8217;ll fix it&#8221; The farmer has to have his hay in, and will lose evrerything if he doesn&#8217;t. he gives the stranger his $500, and the stranger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}