{"id":23494,"date":"2024-12-23T23:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23494"},"modified":"2024-12-23T23:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:01:52","slug":"i-refused-to-let-a-family-tragedy-ruin-my-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23494","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Let a Family Tragedy Ruin My Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister lost her husband and son in an accident two days before Christmas. She asked me to cancel the big party I was hosting, but I refused, saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t ruin the holidays for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the party, we heard a crash from my baby\u2019s room. I found my sister packing away my toddler\u2019s clothes and toys\u2014items she\u2019d lent me that had belonged to her late son. In tears, she said I wasn\u2019t worthy of them and called me a bad sister.<\/p>\n<p>Guests overheard the argument, and I\u2019m sure they left thinking I was heartless. Was I wrong to prioritize the party over her grief? Becca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister lost her husband and son in an accident two days before Christmas. She asked me to cancel the big party I was hosting, but I refused, saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t ruin the holidays for everyone else.\u201d During the party, we heard a crash from my baby\u2019s room. I found my sister packing away my [&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-23494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494","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=23494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23495,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23494\/revisions\/23495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}