{"id":23836,"date":"2026-09-08T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=23836"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:29:08","slug":"my-son-pointed-at-a-strangers-locker-at-the-pool-and-whispered-daddy-he-had-mommy-in-there-i-checked-the-locker-and-went-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=23836","title":{"rendered":"My Son Pointed at a Stranger&#8217;s Locker at the Pool and Whispered, &#8216;Daddy, He Had Mommy in There&#8217; \u2013 I Checked the Locker and Went Pale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after my wife Claire disappeared in a boating accident, my seven-year-old son spotted her bracelet inside a stranger\u2019s pool locker. The locker also contained her wallet, photo, and a final note written for our son.<\/p>\n<p>The man, Marcus, revealed that he had survived the accident because Claire saved him and another coworker before being swept away. Overcome with guilt, he had kept her belongings for two years, afraid to face us.<\/p>\n<p>Claire\u2019s note asked us to keep swimming and never forget our tradition of sharing an \u201cembarrassingly large\u201d order of fries. Instead of blaming Marcus, we reminded him that Claire saved him so he could live.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the three of us swim together every Saturday in her memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after my wife Claire disappeared in a boating accident, my seven-year-old son spotted her bracelet inside a stranger\u2019s pool locker. The locker also contained her wallet, photo, and a final note written for our son. The man, Marcus, revealed that he had survived the accident because Claire saved him and another coworker before &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23838,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836\/revisions\/23838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}