{"id":30137,"date":"2026-07-01T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30137"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:49:19","slug":"i-found-an-old-vhs-tape-with-a-mysterious-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30137","title":{"rendered":"I Found an Old VHS Tape with a Mysterious Note!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"14\" data-end=\"203\">My mom was in the hospital, so Dad and I went to gather her things. While opening her safe, I found a note that said, <strong data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"154\">\u201cDON\u2019T SHOW LUCY.\u201d<\/strong> I\u2019m Lucy. Hidden beneath it was an old VHS tape.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"205\" data-end=\"650\">The tape showed my late grandfather revealing a long-buried family secret. Following his instructions, I dug beneath an old oak tree and found a box filled with love letters and a sapphire ring. The letters revealed he had once loved another woman before marrying my grandmother. When I asked my grandmother, she admitted she had always known, explaining that love can be complicated\u2014and that choosing a family never erased the love he once had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom was in the hospital, so Dad and I went to gather her things. While opening her safe, I found a note that said, \u201cDON\u2019T SHOW LUCY.\u201d I\u2019m Lucy. Hidden beneath it was an old VHS tape. The tape showed my late grandfather revealing a long-buried family secret. Following his instructions, I dug beneath&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=30137\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I Found an Old VHS Tape with a Mysterious Note!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30139,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions\/30139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}