{"id":606,"date":"2026-07-17T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=606"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:11:53","slug":"the-next-morning-emma-almost-didnt-go-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"The next morning, Emma almost didn&#8217;t go. P2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She had been disappointed too many times to believe anyone.<\/p>\n<p>But something inside her told her to take one last chance.<\/p>\n<p>When she arrived, the address led to a beautiful office building.<\/p>\n<p>The same man was waiting at the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been looking for someone like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emma froze.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking for me? Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He smiled&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I knew your father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=607\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She had been disappointed too many times to believe anyone. But something inside her told her to take one last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}