{"id":6845,"date":"2025-09-08T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=6845"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:59:10","slug":"the-traveling-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=6845","title":{"rendered":"The traveling salesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"285\">A traveling salesman\u2019s car broke down in the middle of nowhere, and after hours of walking he finally reached a farmhouse.<br data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"225\" \/>He knocked, and an old, weathered farmer came to the door.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"287\" data-end=\"493\">The salesman begged for a place to stay the night.<br data-start=\"337\" data-end=\"340\" \/>The farmer nodded and said, \u201cSure thing, son. I can give you a bed. But I ain\u2019t got no daughter for you to sleep with, like in those stories you hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"585\">The salesman blinked, paused, and then asked, \u201cSo\u2026 how far is it to the next farmhouse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"585\"><strong>A disappointed salesman of Coca-Cola returned from his assignment to Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"592\" data-end=\"681\">Another tale goes: A Coca-Cola salesman returned from Saudi Arabia completely dejected.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"683\" data-end=\"737\">A friend asked, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t it work out over there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"1028\">The salesman explained, \u201cI couldn\u2019t speak Arabic, so I thought I\u2019d get creative with pictures. I designed three posters: The first showed a man collapsed in the desert, exhausted. The second showed him drinking Coca-Cola. The third showed him refreshed and happy. I put them everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1030\" data-end=\"1071\">\u201cThat sounds perfect!\u201d the friend said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1073\" data-end=\"1168\">\u201cPerfect? Not at all,\u201d replied the salesman. \u201cNobody mentioned they read from right to left!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A traveling salesman\u2019s car broke down in the middle of nowhere, and after hours of walking he finally reached a farmhouse.He knocked, and an old, weathered farmer came to the door. The salesman begged for a place to stay the night.The farmer nodded and said, \u201cSure thing, son. I can give you a bed. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}