{"id":663,"date":"2026-10-08T03:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:40:44","slug":"the-wedding-without-a-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding Without a Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-438\" src=\"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/601f8284-f26a-4856-8020-03f105376780-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/601f8284-f26a-4856-8020-03f105376780-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/601f8284-f26a-4856-8020-03f105376780-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/601f8284-f26a-4856-8020-03f105376780-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/601f8284-f26a-4856-8020-03f105376780.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Sarah and James were deeply in love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But they were both poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">They couldn&#8217;t afford an expensive wedding or even wedding rings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Their families laughed at them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So they married with simple promises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cI promise to stay when we have nothing,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Sarah replied, \u201cAnd I promise to stay when we have everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Years later, they became successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">They could afford the biggest wedding in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But they kept their original simple ceremony photograph on the wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It reminded them where their love began.<\/p>\n<div contenteditable=\"false\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah and James were deeply in love. But they were both poor. They couldn&#8217;t afford an expensive wedding or even wedding rings. Their families laughed at them. So they married &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sokhafitness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}