{"id":72,"date":"2009-11-19T18:44:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nothingtoreadhere.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-11-20T12:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:18:45","slug":"surprise-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/images.jpg\" alt=\"Surprise Box\" width=\"88\" height=\"78\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My parents have lived in the same house for almost 25 years.\u00a0 Recently, a couple\u00a0who has been in the neighborhood even longer,\u00a0decided to move back east\u00a0to be closer to family.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t say that my\u00a0parents were ever particularly close with this couple, but they\u00a0were always\u00a0very\u00a0pleasant with\u00a0one another.\u00a0 Good Neighbors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago my parents had gone out to run some errands while\u00a0a moving crew\u00a0was\u00a0loading up the neighbors&#8217;\u00a0belongings.\u00a0 \u00a0When\u00a0they returned home an hour later, the departing couple\u00a0was standing in the middle of the street, apparently waiting for my parents to say good-bye.\u00a0 During the conversation,\u00a0the husband\u00a0produced a beaten up shoe box.\u00a0 He explained that he had been going through\u00a0the attic and found this box\u00a0which had probably been\u00a0sitting up there for\u00a020\u00a0plus years.\u00a0\u00a0 He said he had no use for its contents and my parents were welcome to\u00a0it they were interested.<\/p>\n<p>The person\u00a0who comes\u00a0closest to guessing the actual contents of the box will win a prize.\u00a0 Well, there won&#8217;t really be a prize, but I&#8217;ll think you&#8217;re pretty cool(Please don&#8217;t guess if you\u00a0know the answer because you&#8217;ve\u00a0already heard the story).\u00a0 Answers must be submitted by December 7, 2009.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post the winner soon thereafter.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Honcho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My parents have lived in the same house for almost 25 years.\u00a0 Recently, a couple\u00a0who has been in the neighborhood even longer,\u00a0decided to move back east\u00a0to be closer to family.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t say that my\u00a0parents were ever particularly close with this couple, but they\u00a0were always\u00a0very\u00a0pleasant with\u00a0one another.\u00a0 Good Neighbors.\u00a0 A few days ago my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n2rh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}