From Marginal Revolution:<\/p>\n
Paddy O’Brien died and as is the Irish custom the mourners were throwing money into his coffin.\u00a0 The town miser, whom everyone despised, cried out “I loved Paddy O’Brien.\u00a0 Whatever anyone else puts into the coffin, I will double!”\u00a0 Thinking the miser a little bit drunk the townspeople took this as an opportunity to teach him a lesson.\u00a0 Gathering all their money they showered the coffin with $3012 in bills and coins, more than had ever before been given at a funeral.\u00a0 The miser then gathered the money, wrote a cheque for $6024 and threw that in. [Hell Money<\/em><\/a>. Marginal Revolution. June 20 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Marginal Revolution: Paddy O’Brien died and as is the Irish custom the mourners were throwing money into his coffin.\u00a0 The town miser, whom everyone despised, cried out “I loved Paddy O’Brien.\u00a0 Whatever anyone else puts into the coffin, I will double!”\u00a0 Thinking the miser a little bit drunk the townspeople took this as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-humor","tag-marginal-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}