{"id":199121,"date":"2026-02-15T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199121"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:47:06","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-jack-benny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199121","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Jack Benny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;Entertainer Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 \u2013 December 26, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Benny\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-172998 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/220px-Jack_Benny_-_1964.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don&#8217;t deserve that either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t mind, it doesn&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modesty is my best quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA&#8230;Entertainer Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 \u2013 December 26, 1974. &#8220;My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/220px-Jack_Benny_-_1964.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199122,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199121\/revisions\/199122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}