{"id":1627,"date":"2026-10-17T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:11:34","slug":"my-new-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/my-new-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"My new hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s almost impossible to impress me anymore. I&#8217;ve seen and heard it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>And yet, today, it happened. In a supermarket. Between the beer shelves. I heard something so extraordinary that the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, a tear welled up in the corner of my eye, and I wanted to walk over to that man, shake his hand, give him a hug, and tell him how he had just restored my faith in humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I&#8217;m going to nominate him for the Nobel Prize!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>A young couple, probably around 25, were having a conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The woman said, &#8220;You&#8217;ll just have two beers.&#8221;<br>The man: &#8220;I&#8217;m having twelve.&#8221;<br>The woman: &#8220;No, you fucking won&#8217;t. You&#8217;re having two!&#8221;<br>The man: &#8220;I want twelve.&#8221;<br>The woman, clearly getting angry: &#8220;Why do you always have to drink so much beer? Can&#8217;t you go just one weekend without drinking the stuff?&#8221;<br>The man: &#8220;You know that once I&#8217;ve had a few, I start getting horny.&#8221;<br>The woman: &#8220;Fine, then. Have your twelve.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>That young man is my hero!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost impossible to impress me anymore. I&#8217;ve seen and heard it all. And yet, today, it happened. In a supermarket. Between the beer shelves. I heard something so extraordinary that the hairs on the back of my neck stood up, a tear welled up in the corner of my eye, and I wanted to &#8230; <a title=\"My new hero\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/my-new-hero\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about My new hero\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirtyoldman.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}