{"id":11906,"date":"2025-02-07T02:49:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2025-02-07T02:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:49:31","slug":"neighbor-asked-my-son-to-shovei-snow-for-10-a-day-but-refused-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=11906","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor Asked My Son to ShoveI Snow for $10 a Day but Refused to Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neighbor Cheats Boy Over Snow-Shoveling Job, Gets a Frosty Lesson in Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When 12-year-old Ben\u2019s wealthy neighbor, Mr. Dickinson, refused to pay him for shoveling snow, claiming it was a \u201clesson about contracts,\u201d Ben was heartbroken. 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