{"id":40,"date":"2025-07-31T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:49:06","slug":"the-power-of-a-text-and-a-little-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a Text\u2026 and a Little Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late one evening, a husband sent a text to his wife:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cHi, I\u2019ll be late. Please try and wash all my dirty clothes and make sure you prepare my favorite dish before I return.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He waited.<br>No reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe she was busy. Maybe she didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few minutes later, he decided to send a follow-up message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cAnd I forgot to tell you\u2014I got a raise! End of the month, I\u2019m getting you a new car.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Within seconds, his phone lit up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cOMG! Really? That\u2019s amazing! I\u2019ll start dinner now and the laundry\u2019s already in!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He smiled to himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he sent a final message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cI was just checking if you were reading my texts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Her reply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cAnd I was just checking if I married a fool.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Moral of the story?<\/strong><br>Words matter. But timing, tone\u2026 and maybe a little incentive? That makes all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late one evening, a husband sent a text to his wife: \u201cHi, I\u2019ll be late. Please try and wash all my dirty clothes and make sure you&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latestnewsfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}