{"id":6544,"date":"2025-07-21T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:43:40","slug":"surprise-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/07\/21\/surprise-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When I entered the restaurant with Kate, I scanned the room as everyone yelled surprise. I was stunned and stood motionless. Family and friends gathered around waiting to hug the fifty-year-old birthday boy. Balloons of different colors filled the room and small beer bottle opener party favors laid perfectly next to each place setting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, honey, were you surprised?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, and then some,\u201d I kissed her softly on the lips.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone yelled speech, speech, so I raised my glass. Before I could get any words out, I thought of how I would tell my wife I just lost my job. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I entered the restaurant with Kate, I scanned the room as everyone yelled surprise. I was stunned and stood motionless. Family and friends gathered around waiting to hug the fifty-year-old birthday boy. Balloons of different colors filled the room and small beer bottle opener party favors laid perfectly next to each place setting. \u201cSo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1365,6567,13451,1421,614,116,2133,1307,589,3705,5521,13452,13453,13454,1316,271,3935,13450,153],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-balloons","tag-beer-bottle","tag-birthday-boy","tag-colors","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-glass","tag-honey","tag-job","tag-lips","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-opener","tag-party-favors","tag-place-setting","tag-restaurant","tag-speech","tag-surprise","tag-surprise-party","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}