{"id":4630,"date":"2025-01-28T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:51:14","slug":"johnny-a-bright-6-year-old-was-waiting-at-the-bus-stop-with-his-mum-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"Johnny, a bright 6-year-old, was waiting at the bus stop with his mum one day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johnny, a bright 6-year-old, was waiting at the bus stop with his mum one day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As they stood there, his mum leaned down and whispered, \u201cWhen we get on the bus, I\u2019ll buy a ticket for myself. If the driver asks, tell him you\u2019re 5, so I won\u2019t have to pay for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnny nodded, even though he wasn\u2019t quite sure why this was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The bus arrived, and they climbed aboard. Mum purchased an adult return ticket to the town centre, and the driver glanced at Johnny with a friendly smile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your name, young man?\u201d the driver asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Johnny!\u201d he replied proudly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd how old are you, Johnny?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 5 years old,\u201d he said confidently.<\/p>\n<p>The driver chuckled and asked, \u201cAnd when will you be 6?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnny, without missing a beat, grinned and said, <strong>\u201cAs soon as I get off the bus!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny, a bright 6-year-old, was waiting at the bus stop with his mum one day. As they stood there, his mum leaned down and whispered, \u201cWhen we get on the bus, I\u2019ll buy a ticket for myself. If the driver asks, tell him you\u2019re 5, so I won\u2019t have to pay for you.\u201d Johnny nodded, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4630","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\/4630","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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}