{"id":865,"date":"2009-05-13T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2009-05-26T19:09:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:09:43","slug":"free-haircuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/free-haircuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Haircuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/barbershop.jpg\" alt=\"Barbershop by Trondheim Byarkiv\" \/>One day, a florist goes to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asked about his bill and the barber replies, <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I cannot accept money from you. I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber goes to open his shop the next morning there is a &#8216;thank you&#8217; card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.<\/p>\n<p>Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replies,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I cannot accept money from you. I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The cop is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber goes to open up, there is a &#8216;thank you&#8217; card and a dozen doughnuts waiting for him at his door.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, a university professor comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replies,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I cannot accept money from you. I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The professor is very happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber opens his shop, there is a &#8216;thank you&#8217; card and a dozen different books, such as &#8216;How to Improve Your Business&#8217; and &#8216;Becoming More Successful.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Then, a Member of Parliament comes in for a hair-cut, and when he goes to pay his bill the barber again replies,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I cannot accept money from you. I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The MP is very happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber goes to open up, there are a dozen MPs lined up waiting for a free hair-cut.<\/p>\n<p><small>Barbershop picture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trondheim_byarkiv\/3412772564\/\">Trondheim Byarkiv<\/a>, used under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/deed.en_GB\">Creative Commons Licence<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, a florist goes to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asked about his bill and the barber replies, &#8216;I cannot accept money from you. I&#8217;m doing community service this week.&#8217; The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber goes to open his shop the next morning there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[511,11,220,33],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-from-the-inbox","tag-jokes","tag-mps-expenses","tag-uk-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}