{"id":9448,"date":"2024-04-25T21:48:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T21:49:17","slug":"an-elderly-man-wants-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=9448","title":{"rendered":"An Elderly Man Wants A Job."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An elderly man wants a job, but the foreman won\u2019t hire him until he passes a little maths test:<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cHere is your first question.\u201d The foreman says.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cWithout using numbers, represent the number nine?\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cWithout numbers?\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The old man says. \u201cThat\u2019s easy.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And he proceeds to draw three trees.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d The boss asks.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cHave you no brain? Tree plus tree plus tree makes nine.\u201d Says the old man.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cFair enough.\u201d Says the boss.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cHere\u2019s your second question. Use the same rules, but this time the number is 99?\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The man stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree and hands it back.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The boss scratches his head and says.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cHow on earth do you get that to represent 99?\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=9451\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Readmore-1-1-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man wants a job, but the foreman won\u2019t hire him until he passes a little maths test: \u201cHere is your first question.\u201d The foreman says. \u201cWithout using numbers, represent the number nine?\u201d \u201cWithout numbers?\u201d The old man says. \u201cThat\u2019s easy.\u201d And he proceeds to draw three trees. \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d The boss asks. \u201cHave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=9448\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;An Elderly Man Wants A Job.&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9453,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions\/9453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}