{"id":16026,"date":"2017-05-03T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2017-05-03T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:12:04","slug":"the-haircut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16026","title":{"rendered":"The Haircut&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed are those that can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.<br \/>\nOne day a florist went to a barber for a haircut.  After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, &#8216;I cannot accept money from you, I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217;<br \/>\nThe florist was pleased and left the shop.<br \/>\nWhen the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a &#8216;thank you&#8217; card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.<br \/>\nLater, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, &#8216;I cannot accept money from you, I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217;  The cop was happy and left the shop.<br \/>\nThe next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a &#8216;thank you&#8217; card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.<br \/>\nThen a Member of Parliament came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied,  &#8216;I cannot accept money from you.  I&#8217;m doing community service this week.  &#8216;The Member of Parliament was very happy and left the shop.<br \/>\nThe next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Members of Parliament lined up waiting for a free haircut.<br \/>\nAnd that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed are those that can give without remembering, and take without forgetting. One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, &#8216;I cannot accept money from you, I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217; The florist was pleased and left the shop. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Haircut&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}