{"id":69106,"date":"2024-02-28T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=69106"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:03:40","slug":"old-mrs-watkins-find-her-house-flooded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/old-mrs-watkins-find-her-house-flooded\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Mrs. Watkins find her house flooded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Old Mrs. Watkins awoke one spring morning to find that the river had flooded the entire first floor of her house.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Looking out of her window, she saw that the water was still rising.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Two men passing by on a rowboat shouted up an invitation to row to safety with them.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>&ldquo;No, thank you,\u201d Mrs. Watkins replied. <strong>\u201cThe Lord will provide.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The men shrugged and rowed on. By evening, the water level forced Mrs. Watkins to climb on top of the roof for safety.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She was spotted by a man in a motorboat, who offered to pick her up. <strong>\u201cDon\u2019t trouble yourself,\u201d she told him. <strong>\u201cThe Lord will provide.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Pretty soon, Mrs. Watkins had to seek refuge atop the chimney.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>When a Red Cross cutter came by on patrol, she waved it on, shouting, <strong>\u201cThe Lord will provide.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>So the boat left, the water rose and the old woman drowned.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Dripping wet and thoroughly annoyed, she came through the pearly gates and demands to speak with God.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d she cried. <strong>\u201cFor cryin\u2019 out loud, lady,\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>God said, <strong>\u201cI sent three boats!\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mrs. Watkins awoke one spring morning to find that the river had flooded the entire first floor of her house. Looking out of her window, she saw that the water was still rising. Two men passing by on a rowboat shouted up an invitation to row to safety with them. &ldquo;No, thank you,\u201d Mrs.\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":69107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Old Mrs. Watkins awoke one spring morning to find that the river had flooded the entire first floor of her house. Looking out of her window","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jokes"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Old-Mrs.-Watkins-find-her-house-flooded.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p>