{"id":5249,"date":"2025-10-04T00:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T00:34:27","slug":"a-wedding-full-of-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=5249","title":{"rendered":"A Wedding Full of Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She came in with swollen eyes and crumpled bills. \u201cMy son\u2019s wedding is in a few hours,\u201d she whispered. \u201cI have twelve dollars. I don\u2019t want to embarrass him.\u201d Her cardigan was worn, her shoes tired, but her gaze was steady. I set the money aside and invited her to sit. \u201cYou won\u2019t embarrass anyone,\u201d I said. I curled soft waves into her gray hair, shaped her brows, added a gentle shimmer, and pressed a rose tint to her lips. When I spun her toward the mirror, she smiled for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, I opened the salon to find flowers everywhere\u2014tulips, roses, lilies, baby\u2019s breath\u2014with a small card: \u201cThank you for seeing me.\u201d Later, the hotel called: the groom and his wife wanted me at a small dinner. They\u2019d pooled their wedding gifts to send the flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She came in with swollen eyes and crumpled bills. \u201cMy son\u2019s wedding is in a few hours,\u201d she whispered. \u201cI have twelve dollars. I don\u2019t want to embarrass him.\u201d Her cardigan was worn, her shoes tired, but her gaze was steady. I set the money aside and invited her to sit. \u201cYou won\u2019t embarrass anyone,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}