{"id":3830,"date":"2025-04-13T19:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2025-04-13T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T19:57:31","slug":"she-was-missing-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"She Was Missing forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"240\" data-end=\"352\">I was walking through a small antique shop in Kyoto, just passing time, when I saw an old music box \u2014 and froze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"527\"><strong data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"434\">It was <em data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"374\">identical<\/em> to the one my grandmother used to keep on her nightstand.<\/strong> The one she\u2019d wind every night before bed, playing a lullaby that still echoed in my dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"631\">I picked it up, opened the lid\u2026 and inside, tucked in the velvet lining, was a faded photo of a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"664\"><strong data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"664\">It was her. My grandmother.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"793\">The shopkeeper noticed my shock and asked if I was okay. I showed him the photo on my phone \u2014 the same woman, younger, smiling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"933\">He said, \u201cThat box was sold to us years ago\u2026 by a woman who said she was leaving it behind for <em data-start=\"890\" data-end=\"932\">someone to find when the time was right.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"959\">Tears welled in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"961\" data-end=\"1064\">I bought it. I carry it with me now \u2014 a reminder that somehow, <strong data-start=\"1024\" data-end=\"1064\">love knows how to find its way back.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking through a small antique shop in Kyoto, just passing time, when I saw an old music box \u2014 and froze. It was identical to the one my grandmother used to keep on her nightstand. The one she\u2019d wind every night before bed, playing a lullaby that still echoed in my dreams. I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}