{"id":12297,"date":"2026-03-22T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2026-03-22T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:52:54","slug":"i-opened-my-late-moms-locket-that-was-glued-shut-for-15-years-what-she-was-hiding-inside-left-me-breathless-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12297","title":{"rendered":"I Opened My Late Moms Locket That Was Glued Shut for 15 Years \u2013 What She Was Hiding Inside Left Me Breathless!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my frugal mother died, I opened the locket she\u2019d worn for 15 years\u2014always sealed shut. Inside wasn\u2019t a photo, but a microSD card and a note warning me to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>Police discovered it held a Bitcoin wallet from 2010, given to her by a man she once helped. She never used it, saving it for the future.<\/p>\n<p>That forgotten key had become a fortune\u2014enough to pay for my daughter\u2019s hearing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>My mom had lived with nothing so her granddaughter could hear everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After my frugal mother died, I opened the locket she\u2019d worn for 15 years\u2014always sealed shut. Inside wasn\u2019t a photo, but a microSD card and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12297\" title=\"I Opened My Late Moms Locket That Was Glued Shut for 15 Years \u2013 What She Was Hiding Inside Left Me Breathless!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12299,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions\/12299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}