{"id":10481,"date":"2026-05-18T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=10481"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:31:41","slug":"teen-honors-her-late-father-with-handmade-prom-dress-and-leaves-the-crowd-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=10481","title":{"rendered":"Teen Honors Her Late Father with Handmade Prom Dress and Leaves the Crowd Emotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was always just me and my dad. My mother died the day I was born, so he became everything at once\u2014parent, protector, cook, teacher, and the only person who truly understood me. He learned how to braid my hair from YouTube tutorials when I was small, clumsily trying again and again until he got it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sundays always began with the smell of pancakes burning slightly at the edges, because he was never perfect at cooking, but he always tried. Every lunchbox he packed had a folded napkin with small handwritten notes reminding me that I was loved, even on days I didn\u2019t feel it myself.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was always just me and my dad. My mother died the day I was born, so he became everything at once\u2014parent, protector, cook, teacher, and the only person who truly understood me. He learned how to braid my hair from YouTube tutorials when I was small, clumsily trying again and again until he got …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10481\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}