{"id":6186,"date":"2025-04-22T07:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2025-04-22T07:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:17:28","slug":"you-cant-take-it-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6186","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Take It With You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Determined to \u201ctake it with him\u201d when he died, a very rich man prayed until the Lord gave in.<\/p>\n<p>There was one condition: He could bring only one suitcase of his wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The rich man decided to fill the case with gold bullion.<\/p>\n<p>Then one day, he died. St. Peter greeted him at the gate and told him he could come in, but his suitcase would have to be left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I have an agreement with God,\u201d said the man, \u201cto bring one suitcase in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s very unusual,\u201d replied St. Peter. \u201cLet me look inside that suitcase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man opened the suitcase to reveal the shining gold bullion. St. Peter was amazed.<\/p>\n<p>He asked, \u201cWhy in the world would you bring more pavement to heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determined to \u201ctake it with him\u201d when he died, a very rich man prayed until the Lord gave in. There was one condition: He could bring only one suitcase of his wealth. The rich man decided to fill the case with gold bullion. Then one day, he died. St. Peter greeted him at the gate [&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-6186","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\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6187,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6187"}],"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=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}