{"id":7907,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/why-didnt-you-pay-for-it-before-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:06","slug":"why-didnt-you-pay-for-it-before-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/why-didnt-you-pay-for-it-before-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t You Pay For It Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Dick Gregory tells a story from earlier in his life:  \u201cI made enough money shining shoes and carrying papers that I could go into the neighborhood bar and buy myself a hamburger, a coke, and a piece of chocolate cake.  What a joy!\u201d  But, while he was there, an old wino struggled in and bought twenty-six cents worth of food.  After he had consumed it, he told the owner that he had no money.  The owner picked up a bottle from the counter and slashed the man across the head.  He fell to the floor bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>The owner proceeded to kick him until at last Gregory said, \u201cStop it!  Stop it!  I&#8217;ll pay for it!\u201d  The old man looked up through bloodied lips and said bitterly, \u201cDon&#8217;t bother now, sonny; I&#8217;ve already paid for it.\u201d  As he staggered out the door, he turned to Gregory and said, \u201cThanks, sonny, but don&#8217;t you understand it&#8217;s too late now.  Why didn&#8217;t you pay for it before?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Dick Gregory tells a story from earlier in his life: \u201cI made enough money shining shoes and carrying papers that I could go into the neighborhood bar and buy myself a hamburger, a coke, and a piece of chocolate cake. What a joy!\u201d But, while he was there, an old wino struggled in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[790,377,679,562,788,786,787,789],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}