{"id":4622,"date":"2025-01-28T14:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:46:12","slug":"a-wealthy-old-man-was-lying-on-his-deathbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4622","title":{"rendered":"A wealthy old man was lying on his deathbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A wealthy old man was lying on his deathbed when it occurred to him that he had never made a will.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, he called his lawyer to help him draft one. The next day, the lawyer arrived, and the old man began to lay out his wishes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want 25% of my money to go to charity. After all, I&#8217;ve taken so much; I should give something back,&#8221; the old man said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How generous of you,&#8221; the lawyer replied. &#8220;I\u2019ll make sure that happens right away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also want 25% to go to my son. He\u2019s been waiting for the day he could get his hands on my money,&#8221; the old man added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, I\u2019ll make sure he gets 25%,&#8221; the lawyer responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the rest should go to my wife, on the condition that she remarries after I die,&#8221; the old man continued.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer, a bit puzzled, asked, &#8220;Okay, I\u2019ll make sure that happens. But may I ask why you want her to remarry? It&#8217;s a rather unusual request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The old man grinned and said, &#8220;I want to make sure at least one man regrets my death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealthy old man was lying on his deathbed when it occurred to him that he had never made a will. So, he called his lawyer to help him draft one. The next day, the lawyer arrived, and the old man began to lay out his wishes. &#8220;I want 25% of my money to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}