Two old ladies, Dolly and Ruby, were sitting on a park bench, chatting about their grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Dolly sighed, \u201cYou know, every year, I send each of my grandkids a card with a nice, fat cheque inside. And you know what I get in return? Absolutely nothing. No thank-you calls, no messages, not even a measly emoji.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruby chuckled, \u201cWell, Dolly, I send generous cheques to my grandkids too, but I hear from them within a week of sending it. In fact, they all make a point to visit me in person!\u201d<\/p>\n
Dolly\u2019s eyes widened. \u201cSeriously? How do you manage that? What\u2019s your secret?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruby leaned in with a sly grin and whispered, \u201cOh, it\u2019s very simple, my dear. I don\u2019t sign the cheque.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two old ladies, Dolly and Ruby, were sitting on a park bench, chatting about their grandchildren. Dolly sighed, \u201cYou know, every year, I send each of my grandkids a card with a nice, fat cheque inside. And you know what I get in return? Absolutely nothing. No thank-you calls, no messages, not even a measly […]<\/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-5814","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\/5814","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=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions\/5815"}],"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=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}