{"id":26252,"date":"2013-03-21T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stickel.com.br\/atc\/?p=26252"},"modified":"2013-03-21T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T17:02:58","slug":"how-to-stop-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/humor\/26252","title":{"rendered":"how to stop gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stickel.com.br\/atc\/uploads\/frank1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stickel.com.br\/atc\/uploads\/frank1.jpg\" alt=\"frank\" width=\"451\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26253\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>How To Stop Gossip<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMildred, a self-appointed monitor of the church&#8217;s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people&#8217;s business.<br \/>\nSeveral members did not approve of her extra- curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. <\/p>\n<p>She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town&#8217;s only bar one afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>She emphatically told Frank (and several others) that every one seeing it there would know what he was doing!<\/p>\n<p>Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn&#8217;t explain, defend, or deny. He said nothing..<\/p>\n<p>Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred&#8217;s house &#8230; walked home &#8230;. .and left it there all night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Stop Gossip \u00a0 Mildred, a self-appointed monitor of the church&#8217;s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people&#8217;s business. Several members did not approve of her extra- curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf_quotes":[],"reactions":{"like":0,"heart":0,"laugh":0,"wow":0,"sad":0,"clap":0,"fire":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26254,"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions\/26254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickel.com.br\/atc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}