{"id":16285,"date":"2026-05-09T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16285"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:46:30","slug":"cant-even-afford-a-decent-car-yet-youre-sitting-here-having-christmas-dinner-with-us-they-mocked-me-in-front-of-the-whole-table-i-simply-set-my-glass-down-looke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16285","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCan\u2019t even afford a decent car, yet you\u2019re sitting here having Christmas dinner with us?\u201d they mocked me in front of the whole table. I simply set my glass down, looked straight at them, and said, \u201cYou should laugh a little quieter\u2026 because the building you live in belongs to me.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"98\" data-end=\"306\">\u201cCan\u2019t even afford a decent car, yet you\u2019re having Christmas dinner with us?\u201d my family mocked. I set my glass down and said calmly, \u201cLaugh a little quieter\u2026 because the building you live in belongs to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"308\" data-end=\"425\">They laughed louder\u2014until the next morning, when I showed up at the door with the building manager and my attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cCan\u2019t even afford a decent car, yet you\u2019re having Christmas dinner with us?\u201d my family mocked. I set my glass down and said calmly, \u201cLaugh <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16285\" title=\"\u201cCan\u2019t even afford a decent car, yet you\u2019re sitting here having Christmas dinner with us?\u201d they mocked me in front of the whole table. I simply set my glass down, looked straight at them, and said, \u201cYou should laugh a little quieter\u2026 because the building you live in belongs to me.\u201d\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16287,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions\/16287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}