{"id":12743,"date":"2026-02-01T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12743"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:19:55","slug":"a-messy-moment-a-stronger-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12743","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Messy Moment, A Stronger Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"190\"><strong data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"188\">The Supermarket Moment That Changed How I See Myself as a Single Mom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"438\">I was at the supermarket, juggling my crying 7-year-old and groceries, when a woman started filming me and said, <em data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"348\">\u201cPeople like you should never have kids!\u201d<\/em> My son was completely covered in chocolate\u2014clothes, hair, face\u2014the mess was everywhere.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"717\">I was mortified, rushing him to the car, feeling all eyes on us. Five years later, I still remember that moment\u2014but now, I see it differently. Raising three kids on my own while working full-time isn\u2019t easy, yet I did it. As single moms, we should give ourselves more credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Supermarket Moment That Changed How I See Myself as a Single Mom I was at the supermarket, juggling my crying 7-year-old and groceries, when a woman started filming me and said, \u201cPeople like you should never have kids!\u201d My son was completely covered in chocolate\u2014clothes, hair, face\u2014the mess was everywhere. I was mortified, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12745,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions\/12745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}