{"id":22434,"date":"2013-05-26T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T09:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=22434"},"modified":"2013-05-26T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T09:24:48","slug":"smartest-man-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/smartest-man-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartest man in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Parachute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22444\" alt=\"Parachute\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Parachute.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Parachute.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Parachute-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Parachute-129x150.jpg 129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a priest were out for a Sunday afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane developed engine trouble. In spite of the best efforts of the pilot, the plane started to go down. Finally, the pilot grabbed a parachute, yelled to the passengers that they had better jump, and then he bailed out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately, there were only three parachutes remaining. The doctor grabbed one and said &#8220;I&#8217;m a doctor, I save lives, so I must live,&#8221; and jumped out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The lawyer then said, &#8220;I&#8217;m a lawyer and lawyers are the smartest people in the world. I deserve to live.&#8221; He also grabbed a parachute and jumped.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The priest looked at the little boy and said, &#8220;My son, I&#8217;ve lived a long and full life. You are young and have your whole life ahead of you. Take the last parachute and live in peace.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The little boy handed the parachute back to the priest and said, &#8220;Not to worry, Father. The &#8216;smartest man in the world&#8217; just took off with my back pack.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a priest were out for a Sunday afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane developed engine trouble. In spite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22436,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22434\/revisions\/22436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}