{"id":42225,"date":"2026-04-06T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=42225"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:22:09","slug":"the-day-i-took-flowers-i-couldnt-afford-and-received-a-kindness-i-never-outgrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=42225","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Took Flowers I Couldn\u2019t Afford\u2026 and Received a Kindness I Never Outgrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bouquet for My Mother<\/p>\n<p>When I was twelve, I used to take flowers from a small shop down the street and place them on my mother\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n<p>She had died the year before, and my father worked long hours, too tired to notice how often I slipped out. I had no money. But bringing flowers to her made me feel close to her\u2014as if something beautiful could still connect us.<\/p>\n<p>One afternoon, the shop owner caught me.<\/p>\n<p>I stood there holding a few roses, my heart racing.<\/p>\n<p>I expected anger. Maybe worse.<\/p>\n<p>But instead, the woman\u2014around her fifties, with gentle, tired eyes\u2014said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re for your mother, take them properly. She deserves better than stolen flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bouquet for My Mother When I was twelve, I used to take flowers from a small shop down the street and place them on my mother\u2019s&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42227,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions\/42227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}