{"id":23405,"date":"2024-12-22T21:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23405"},"modified":"2024-12-22T21:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T20:55:24","slug":"the-20-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23405","title":{"rendered":"The $20 Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in college and had approximately $6 in my bank account for the next 2 or 3 days. Walking home from an evening class, I found $20 on the sidewalk. Nobody was around. I couldn\u2019t believe my luck. I could get ground beef, eggs, milk, whatever, I knew I\u2019d be set for two days.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, I lost my phone. I couldn\u2019t afford to replace it. Then a man contacted my mom. He found it.<br \/>\nI hurried to the meeting place, but didn\u2019t expect to see a homeless man there. He had found my phone in some grass. He called \u201cMom\u201d and spoke to her about returning it. I thanked him and gave him $20 for his help \u2014 it wasn\u2019t my $20 to begin with, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in college and had approximately $6 in my bank account for the next 2 or 3 days. Walking home from an evening class, I found $20 on the sidewalk. Nobody was around. I couldn\u2019t believe my luck. I could get ground beef, eggs, milk, whatever, I knew I\u2019d be set for two days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23406,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405\/revisions\/23406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}