{"id":88753,"date":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=88753"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","slug":"the-milkmaid-and-her-pail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=88753","title":{"rendered":"The Milkmaid And Her Pail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left\">The Milkmaid and her Pail<\/p>\n<p>Patty the Milkmaid was going to the market carrying milk in a pail on her head.<\/p>\n<p>As she went along, she began calculating what she would do with the money she would get for the milk. &#8220;I&#8217;ll buy some fowls from Farmer Brown,&#8221; said she, &#8220;and they will lay eggs each morning, which I will sell to the parson&#8217;s wife. With the money that I get from the sale of these eggs, I&#8217;ll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat, and when I go to the market, won&#8217;t all the young men come up and speak to me! Polly Shaw will be so jealous, but I don&#8217;t care. I shall just look at her and toss my head like this.&#8221; Short Stories<\/p>\n<p>As she spoke that, she tossed her head back and the pail fell off it, and all the milk was spilt!<\/p>\n<p>MORAL: DO NOT COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY ARE HATCHED.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milkmaid and her Pail Patty the Milkmaid was going to the market carrying milk in a pail on her head. As she went along,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}