{"id":6801,"date":"2025-06-01T06:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2025-06-01T06:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:03:04","slug":"a-woman-walks-into-a-pharmacy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=6801","title":{"rendered":"A woman walks into a pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman walks into a pharmacy one afternoon, looking calm but determined. She approaches the counter and says to the pharmacist in a low, serious voice, \u201cI need a poison. Something strong, fast-acting\u2026 and untraceable. It has to look like my husband died of natural causes.\u201d The pharmacist blinks in shock, then quickly leans forward, whispering back,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa\u2019am, I\u2019m afraid I can\u2019t help you with that. In fact, I have a legal obligation to report this conversation to the authorities.\u201d Without saying another word, the woman reaches into her purse, pulls out a folded photograph, and slides it across the counter.The pharmacist picks it up, unfolds it, and his eyes go wide\u2014it\u2019s a clear shot of her husband in bed\u2026 with the pharmacist\u2019s own wife. There\u2019s a long,<\/p>\n<p>pause. Then the pharmacist clears his throat and says,\u201cAh. I see you have a prescription. That changes everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman walks into a pharmacy one afternoon, looking calm but determined. She approaches the counter and says to the pharmacist in a low, serious voice, \u201cI need a poison. Something strong, fast-acting\u2026 and untraceable. It has to look like my husband died of natural causes.\u201d The pharmacist blinks in shock, then quickly leans forward, [&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-6801","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\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6802,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6802"}],"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=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}