{"id":25837,"date":"2025-08-17T23:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=25837"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:30:27","slug":"25837","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=25837","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut Marcus said somebody was going to give him a special surprise at the parade,\u201d the officer continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why he wandered off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I knelt down beside Marcus, trying to understand. \u201cMarcus, sweetheart, what did you mean by surprise?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus scrunched his face in concentration, then his eyes lit up. \u201cThe man with the funny hat! He said he knew you and had a surprise for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=25839\"><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>\u201cBut Marcus said somebody was going to give him a special surprise at the parade,\u201d the officer continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why he wandered off.\u201d I knelt down beside Marcus, trying to understand. \u201cMarcus, sweetheart, what did you mean by surprise?\u201d Marcus scrunched his face in concentration, then his eyes lit up. \u201cThe man with the funny&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=25837\" 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\/25837"}],"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=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25844,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions\/25844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}