{"id":33740,"date":"2024-11-24T22:18:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=33740"},"modified":"2025-02-22T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:03:17","slug":"id-been-away-on-a-business-trip-and-after-finishing-early-i-booked-a-surprise-flight-home-for-my-husband-ben-i-imagined-his-face-lighting-up-when-i-walked-through-the-door-we-hadnt-had-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=33740","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d been away on a business trip, and after finishing early>>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"891\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1743-891x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1743-891x1024.png 891w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1743-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1743-768x883.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1743-1336x1536.png 1336w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1743.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After finishing a business trip early, I booked a surprise flight home for my husband, Ben, hoping to make up for the lack of &#8220;us&#8221; time. When I arrived, the house was quiet, and I assumed Ben was in his office. But as I stepped into the backyard, I froze. Ben was frantically shoveling dirt near a large, glossy, black egg. It looked otherworldly, like something from a fantasy film. I almost laughed, thinking it was a prank, but Ben\u2019s panicked expression stopped me. His hands were shaking, and he seemed nervous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBen?\u201d I called. He froze, then turned to me, his voice trembling. \u201cWHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked what was going on, but he quickly dismissed it. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing.\u201d But something felt wrong. He seemed evasive, insisting he was just doing what needed to be done. My instincts told me there was more to the story. The next day, when he left for work, I couldn\u2019t resist \u2014 I had to dig up that mysterious egg and find out what was really going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=33737\">also read&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing a business trip early, I booked a surprise flight home for my husband, Ben, hoping to make up for the lack of &#8220;us&#8221; time. When&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48261,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33740\/revisions\/48261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}