{"id":26968,"date":"2025-12-26T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26968"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:31:10","slug":"my-stepmom-took-the-christmas-gift-my-dad-left-me-told-me-i-didnt-deserve-it-unaware-it-was-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26968","title":{"rendered":"My Stepmom Took the Christmas Gift My Dad Left Me &amp; Told Me I Didn&#8217;t Deserve It, Unaware It Was a Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anna\u2019s dad remarries, and his new wife Melanie constantly belittles Anna. Right before Christmas, Dad gives Anna a beautifully wrapped gift and makes her promise not to open it until Christmas morning. On Christmas morning, Melanie greedily grabs the gift and opens it first\u2014only to find a letter addressed to her. In it, Dad reveals he overheard her plotting to steal Anna\u2019s present and set this up as a test. Inside the box is Melanie\u2019s engagement ring, taken back as a final \u201cgoodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad then walks in, admits he never went on the trip, and tells Melanie to pack and leave. After she\u2019s gone, Dad and Anna spend a peaceful Christmas together\u2014and he gives Anna the ring as a symbol of a fresh start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna\u2019s dad remarries, and his new wife Melanie constantly belittles Anna. Right before Christmas, Dad gives Anna a beautifully wrapped gift and makes her promise not to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":241,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26970,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions\/26970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}