{"id":68255,"date":"2024-02-17T22:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=68255"},"modified":"2024-02-17T22:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T15:29:36","slug":"i-came-across-this-story-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/i-came-across-this-story-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"I came across this story somewhere\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>This is from an old story, back in the \u201930s, in the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less. A 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cHow much is an ice cream sundae?\u201d the little boy asked.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cFifty cents,\u201d replied the waitress.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins he had. <strong>\u201cWell, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?\u201d he inquired.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>By now, more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing very impatient.<strong> \u201cThirty-five cents,\u201d she brusquely replied.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The little boy again counted his coins.<strong> \u201cI\u2019ll have the plain ice cream,\u201d he said.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry. As she wiped down the table, there placed neatly beside the empty dish were two nickels and five pennies. You see, he couldn\u2019t have the sundae because he had to have enough money to leave her a tip.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from an old story, back in the \u201930s, in the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less. A 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. \u201cHow much is an ice cream sundae?\u201d the little boy\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":68256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"This is from an old story, back in the \u201930s, in the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less. A 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/I-came-accross.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p>