{"id":23929,"date":"2024-12-31T20:43:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T19:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23929"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T19:43:19","slug":"i-refused-to-let-a-family-tragedy-ruin-my-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23929","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Let a Family Tragedy Ruin My Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days before Christmas, my sister lost her husband and 13-year-old son in an accident. She asked me to cancel the big party I was hosting, but I refused, saying she couldn\u2019t ruin the holidays for everyone else. During the party, while we were making a toast, I heard a crash from my baby\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>When I went in, I was shocked to find my sister\u2019s son helping her pack my toddler\u2019s clothes and toys\u2014items she had lent me from her late son. She tearfully told me I didn\u2019t deserve them and that I wasn\u2019t worthy of her family. The guests overheard, and I\u2019m sure they left thinking I was a bad person. Was I wrong to prioritize the party while my sister was grieving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days before Christmas, my sister lost her husband and 13-year-old son in an accident. She asked me to cancel the big party I was hosting, but I refused, saying she couldn\u2019t ruin the holidays for everyone else. During the party, while we were making a toast, I heard a crash from my baby\u2019s room. [&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-23929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929","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=23929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23930,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23929\/revisions\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}