{"id":93,"date":"2025-09-12T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:18:06","slug":"93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Me: \u201cI\u2019m not letting this go.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Michael: \u201cNeither am I.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Two weeks later, we hosted Michael\u2019s birthday picnic. The invitations read: \u201cEveryone who sees Sophie as part of this family is welcome.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An hour before the party, Evelyn texted\u2026<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Evelyn texted, \u201cI assume this invitation doesn\u2019t include me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked at Michael, the weight of his mother\u2019s words pressing down on us both. He sighed, setting his phone aside, and wrapped his arms around Sophie, who was buzzing with excitement as she decorated the garden with balloons and streamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s enjoy today,\u201d he said softly, planting a kiss on her head. \u201cIt\u2019s our day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=91\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"https:\/\/factznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/read-more-300x75-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: \u201cI\u2019m not letting this go.\u201d Michael: \u201cNeither am I.\u201d Two weeks later, we hosted Michael\u2019s birthday picnic. The invitations read: \u201cEveryone who sees Sophie as part of this family is welcome.\u201d An hour before the party, Evelyn texted\u2026 Evelyn texted, \u201cI assume this invitation doesn\u2019t include me.\u201d I looked at Michael, the weight of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/factznews.com\/?p=93\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}