{"id":4820,"date":"2026-01-28T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:29:00","slug":"there-was-an-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=4820","title":{"rendered":"There was an old man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"328\">An old man bikes to his brother\u2019s house every weekend, always arriving by 2 PM after a two-hour ride. One day, he tries to do it in one hour. Exhausted on a hill, a man in a Corvette offers help by tying the bike to the bumper.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"393\">\u201cJust yell <em data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"352\">beep beep<\/em> if I\u2019m going too fast,\u201d the driver says.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"480\">At an intersection, a Ferrari pulls up. The light turns green\u2014and both cars take off.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"617\">Later at the police station, an officer says, \u201cI saw the strangest thing today. A Ferrari and a Corvette flew past me at over 120 mph.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"647\">\u201cSo what?\u201d another cop asks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"649\" data-end=\"750\">\u201cWell,\u201d he says, \u201cthere was an old guy on a bike behind them yelling <em data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"729\">beep beep<\/em> and trying to pass!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man bikes to his brother\u2019s house every weekend, always arriving by 2 PM after a two-hour ride. One day, he tries to do it in one hour. Exhausted on a hill, a man in a Corvette offers help by tying the bike to the bumper. \u201cJust yell beep beep if I\u2019m going too &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2-29.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}