{"id":26578,"date":"2025-12-24T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26578"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:31:59","slug":"the-guest-who-wasnt-invited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26578","title":{"rendered":"The guest who wasnt invited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A day before my niece\u2019s wedding, she called to tell me I was no longer invited. \u201cThere\u2019s a catering issue, and we have to trim the guest list,\u201d she said. It hurt, but I told her it was okay, and respected her choice. But I also told her that I wouldn\u2019t be sitting around feeling sorry for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She paused on the phone, maybe surprised I wasn\u2019t begging to be included. \u201cI hope you understand,\u201d she added, her voice thin. I told her I did. After all, weddings can be stressful. Still, I could hear in her tone something wasn\u2019t right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day before my niece\u2019s wedding, she called to tell me I was no longer invited. \u201cThere\u2019s a catering issue, and we have to trim the guest&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":369,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578","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=26578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26580,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578\/revisions\/26580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}