{"id":18912,"date":"2025-11-18T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:30:42","slug":"the-bigger-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18912","title":{"rendered":"The Bigger Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my DIL reached for a 2nd slice of pie, I jokingly said, \u201cCareful, dear! At this rate, we\u2019ll need a bigger chair for you next time!\u201d She turned red and left the table. My son, furious, said, \u201cThat\u2019s mean, Mom! You owe her an apology.\u201d I brushed it off. Later, I went to check on her \u2014 I froze as I saw her sitting on the edge of the guest bed, holding back tears, a half-folded piece of paper in her hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I opened my mouth to say something, but the words got stuck. For a moment, all I could do was stand there, watching her shoulders shake. She didn\u2019t hear me come in. Or maybe she did, but didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my DIL reached for a 2nd slice of pie, I jokingly said, \u201cCareful, dear! At this rate, we\u2019ll need a bigger chair for you next time!\u201d&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":336,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}