{"id":343,"date":"2004-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paragonis.com\/Emails\/?p=343"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"Smart Thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Smart Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A smartly dressed executive saunters into a New York City bank and requests an immediate loan for $5000.  He offers to pay the money back plus interest as soon as he returns from a two week vacation.  The bank officer says he&#8217;ll need some sort of security.  The executive responds:  &#8220;No problem.  Take my Rolls-Royce as collateral.  It&#8217;s out front.&#8221;  The officer agrees and has an employee drive the car to the bank&#8217;s underground parking lot, and writes out a check for $5000.00.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, the executive returns to pay off the loan.  The bank officer reports that the accumulated interest is $15.64 and looks at the executive with a puzzled expression.  &#8220;I&#8217;m curious,&#8221; he says.  &#8220;While you were out of town, I checked your references and discoverd that you&#8217;re worth millions.  Why would someone like you want to take out a loan for a measly $5,000?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The executive smiles and replies, &#8220;Where else can you park a car for two weeks in this city for $15.64?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smartly dressed executive saunters into a New York City bank and requests an immediate loan for $5000. He offers to pay the money back plus interest as soon as he returns from a two week vacation. The bank officer says he&#8217;ll need some sort of security. The executive responds: &#8220;No problem. Take my Rolls-Royce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emails.paragonis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}