{"id":24652,"date":"2025-07-27T03:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24652"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:28:59","slug":"24652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24652","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flipped through the wedding booklet. Adam\u2019s parents had titles, honors, and \u201cgrateful for their generous support and wisdom.\u201d My mom was just \u201cPam, hair artist, heart of gold.\u201d No last name, no mention that she raised me alone since I was three. I shut the booklet and looked at my mom. She gave me her \u201clet\u2019s just get through tonight\u201d smile.<\/p>\n<p>And then Ronald, Adam\u2019s dad, stood up. He raised his glass. \u201cTonight, we celebrate a story,\u201d he said, his smile coming with a price tag. \u201cA story of success. A story of someone rising above their circumstances. This is America, after all, where even if you weren\u2019t born with a silver spoon, but say, a comb in your hand, you can still make something of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polite, measured laughter. I saw Mom\u2019s fork twitch<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24654\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flipped through the wedding booklet. Adam\u2019s parents had titles, honors, and \u201cgrateful for their generous support and wisdom.\u201d My mom was just \u201cPam, hair artist, heart of gold.\u201d No last name, no mention that she raised me alone since I was three. I shut the booklet and looked at my mom. She gave me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24652\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24656,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions\/24656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}