{"id":23411,"date":"2024-12-22T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23411"},"modified":"2024-12-22T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:01:09","slug":"the-night-my-mom-took-my-boyfriends-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23411","title":{"rendered":"The Night My Mom Took My Boyfriend\u2019s Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the \u201980s, my boyfriend and I had a weekly 8 PM call, until one night I missed it. My mom, closest to the phone, answered instead. I heard her cheerful \u201cHello?\u201d followed by an eruption of anger.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, my boyfriend, thinking he was speaking to me, had been flirting with her! She was furious, and I was mortified. When he finally called to apologize, my mom milked it for weeks, answering with, \u201cIs it the charming Romeo again?\u201d I\u2019ll never live that down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the \u201980s, my boyfriend and I had a weekly 8 PM call, until one night I missed it. My mom, closest to the phone, answered instead. I heard her cheerful \u201cHello?\u201d followed by an eruption of anger. Apparently, my boyfriend, thinking he was speaking to me, had been flirting with her! She was furious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23412,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23411\/revisions\/23412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}