{"id":23242,"date":"2025-12-09T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:15:15","slug":"i-refused-to-attend-my-newly-hired-sons-comedy-show-i-want-it-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23242","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Attend My Newly Hired Son\u2019s Comedy Show \u2014 I Want It Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parenting adult children can be full of surprises: some funny, some shocking. One reader shared a story about her 26-year-old son performing stand-up comedy, using private family moments in his routine, and the unexpected fallout that left her questioning boundaries, trust, and how much to share with grown kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m Karen, 52, and my son Eli, 26, recently started doing stand-up comedy. When he invited me to his first show, I hesitated. I wasn\u2019t ready to hear personal family stories broadcast to strangers. Out of frustration, I said, \u201cWhen will you get a real job?\u201d He went silent and stormed out.I thought that was the end of it, but the next day, my friend called laughing: \u201cYour son\u2019s bit about his mom\u2026 absolutely hilarious!\u201d My stomach dropped. Eli had used private details from our life \u2014 from the time I accidentally burned the Thanksgiving turkey, to the fight we had over his messy bedroom in college, to the time he spilled hot tea on my favorite couch. And he wasn\u2019t just joking: he exaggerated, made me sound dramatic, and turned real moments into punchlines for strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parenting adult children can be full of surprises: some funny, some shocking. One reader shared a story about her 26-year-old son performing stand-up comedy, using private family&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":110,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","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=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23244,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions\/23244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}