{"id":30761,"date":"2020-11-30T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T00:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30761"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T00:30:22","slug":"the-essence-of-chutzpah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30761","title":{"rendered":"THE ESSENCE OF CHUTZPAH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pretzel_Vendor-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pretzel Vendor\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pretzel_Vendor-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Pretzel_Vendor.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your LOL for today!<\/p>\n<p>Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance. As Leo Rosten writes, &#8220;no other word, and no other language,&#8221; can do it justice. This example is better than 1,000 words.<\/p>\n<p>A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each.<\/p>\n<p>Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel.<\/p>\n<p>This went on for more than 3 years. The two of them never spoke.<\/p>\n<p>One day, as the young man passed the old lady&#8217;s stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him.<\/p>\n<p>Without blinking an eye she said: &#8220;They&#8217;re 35 cents now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s your LOL for today! Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance. As Leo Rosten writes, &#8220;no other word, and no other language,&#8221; can do it justice. This example is better than 1,000 words. A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=30761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE ESSENCE OF CHUTZPAH&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761","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=30761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30763,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions\/30763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}