{"id":5725,"date":"2025-03-29T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2025-03-29T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:00:43","slug":"an-old-farmer-was-known-for-being-extremely-smart-and-witty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5725","title":{"rendered":"An old farmer was known for being extremely smart and witty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>An old farmer was known for being extremely smart and witty.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One day, a young lawyer from the city decided to challenge him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld man,\u201d the lawyer said, \u201cI bet you can\u2019t answer all my questions. If I ask you something you can\u2019t answer, I\u2019ll pay you $100. But if you ask me something I can\u2019t answer, you only have to pay me $5. Deal?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farmer thought for a moment and agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer went first. \u201cHow many stars are in the sky?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farmer thought for a moment, then quietly handed the lawyer $5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlright, your turn,\u201d the farmer said. \u201cWhat goes up the hill with three legs and comes down with four?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer was confused. He thought and thought, checked his phone, searched the internet, and even called a few friends. But no one knew the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated, the lawyer handed the farmer $100. \u201cFine, I give up. But tell me, what does go up the hill with three legs and come down with four?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farmer smiled, handed the lawyer $5, and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOL!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope this joke will make you smile! Have a nice day!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old farmer was known for being extremely smart and witty. One day, a young lawyer from the city decided to challenge him. \u201cOld man,\u201d the lawyer said, \u201cI bet you can\u2019t answer all my questions. If I ask you something you can\u2019t answer, I\u2019ll pay you $100. But if you ask me something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","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\/5725","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=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5726,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}