{"id":9266,"date":"2025-01-31T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:16:58","slug":"the-birthday-memory-that-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/?p=9266","title":{"rendered":"The Birthday Memory That Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was the poor kid growing up. My mom used to send me to birthday parties with no present, just so I could eat.<\/p>\n<p>In 5th grade, my friend\u2019s mom invited me to sleep over for the night before the actual birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>When her daughter was in the shower, the mom laid out the toys that she had bought her daughter for her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>She let me pick one to wrap and put my name on. I\u2019m 37 now. I am still grateful to that mom. That one act made such an impact on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the poor kid growing up. My mom used to send me to birthday parties with no present, just so I could eat. In 5th grade,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}