{"id":5889,"date":"2025-11-22T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:16:50","slug":"the-wedding-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5889","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister was about to marry Jack \u2014 they\u2019d been together five years. I even offered $10,000 as a wedding gift toward a house.<\/p>\n<p>Everything seemed perfect: venue, flowers, invitations \u2014 the works. But then Jack found out she was cheating.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a fling \u2014 she\u2019d been unfaithful for months, with a college friend. When he told me, his heartbreak was clear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t even have the decency to tell me\u2026 I learned from someone else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I stood by him immediately. He had my full support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My sister was about to marry Jack \u2014 they\u2019d been together five years. I even offered $10,000 as a wedding gift toward a house. Everything <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=5889\" title=\"The Wedding That Never Was\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","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\/5889","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=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5891,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}