{"id":7481,"date":"2025-09-30T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:00:20","slug":"i-was-on-a-date-and-he-was-so-sweet-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7481","title":{"rendered":"I was on a date and he was so sweet\u2026. I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"255\">I thought it was the perfect evening. He was charming, attentive, and sweet. Dinner was flawless\u2014until the bill arrived.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"391\">The waitress looked at him and said: <em data-start=\"294\" data-end=\"326\">\u201cSir, your card was declined.\u201d<\/em> His face drained of color. I smiled, paid, and brushed it off.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"506\">But as we left, she grabbed my arm. She slipped the receipt into my hand and whispered: <em data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"504\">\u201cI lied. Google him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"508\" data-end=\"558\">At home, I searched his name. My blood ran cold.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"772\">He was a con man. A serial fraudster. He had dated women only to steal from them, even serving prison time for it. One ex had even written a blog describing how he tricked her\u2014the same way he had approached me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"774\" data-end=\"896\">That waitress saved me with her staged \u201cdeclined card.\u201d She didn\u2019t just serve dinner that night\u2014she served me a warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it was the perfect evening. He was charming, attentive, and sweet. Dinner was flawless\u2014until the bill arrived. The waitress looked at him and said: \u201cSir, your card was declined.\u201d His face drained of color. I smiled, paid, and brushed it off. But as we left, she grabbed my arm. She slipped the receipt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7481","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\/7481","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=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}