{"id":17260,"date":"2025-11-10T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:56:11","slug":"15-people-whose-resourcefulness-deserves-its-own-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=17260","title":{"rendered":"15 People Whose Resourcefulness Deserves Its Own Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some people think they\u2019re brilliant with their sneaky shortcuts \u2014 until life humbles them. One man thought he found love, but the woman was actually being used as free labor at a tiny guesthouse. After months of cleaning, decorating, and helping \u201cbuild a future,\u201d he dumped her and moved on to the next unsuspecting \u201cfianc\u00e9e.\u201d Another student tried to impress teachers by holding trendy books for show \u2014 until one professor asked him questions about <em>War and Peace<\/em> and instantly exposed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, petty battles happen even inside families. One brother constantly stole seasoning from his sibling\u2019s kitchen, so she replaced it with salt \u2014 and quietly enjoyed his confusion over ruined meals. Two girls hitchhiking in China once got sabotaged by a chatty old man who kept distracting drivers. Fed up, they pretended he agreed to drive them. The shocked man fled, and they finally got a ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some stories are about luck \u2014 or sheer boldness. A student who studied one exam question drew that exact ticket and still got an A after passionately answering only half the test. Another worker tried to resign gently, only for the boss to say, \u201cThen don\u2019t look at the clock.\u201d He quit on the spot. And one warehouse guard faked hourly surveillance images so he didn\u2019t have to show up to work \u2014 only to receive a photo of his paycheck on payday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all tricks are malicious \u2014 some are just adorable. A cat learned to \u201cfaint\u201d at loud noises because it earned him snacks and cuddles, and kept doing it for years. Parents pretend to be tough bosses at work but softies at home, slipping into warmth the moment they walk through the door. These stories show that cunning, comedy, and karma all walk hand in hand \u2014 and life never runs out of clever characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think they\u2019re brilliant with their sneaky shortcuts \u2014 until life humbles them. One man thought he found love, but the woman was actually being used&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":101,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17262,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions\/17262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}