{"id":9968,"date":"2025-11-22T22:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:57:48","slug":"i-put-my-late-moms-photo-on-my-wedding-table-my-stepmom-accidentally-shoved-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=9968","title":{"rendered":"I Put My Late Mom&#8217;s Photo on My Wedding Table \u2013 My Stepmom &#8216;Accidentally&#8217; Shoved it Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"274\">I lost my mom when I was 19. She was my best friend, my hero. Ten months after her funeral, my dad remarried\u2014Carol. From the start, she flinched at my mom\u2019s name and went through our house erasing every trace of her.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"460\">I promised myself my mom would be part of my wedding. On the big day, Carol saw my mom\u2019s photo at the head table and shoved it to the floor. I knew this would happen. Perfect timing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"678\">Seconds later, a detective and officers entered. \u201cMrs. Carol, you\u2019re under investigation for financial fraud and identity theft,\u201d they announced. Bank transfers, vacation photos with another man\u2014everything exposed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"680\" data-end=\"730\">Carol screamed, pointing at me. \u201cShe set me up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"783\">\u201cNo, Carol,\u201d I said. \u201cThis is just consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"873\">My dad gently replaced my mom\u2019s photo. \u201cShe would\u2019ve been proud of you,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"1030\">Carol was led away in handcuffs. My mom\u2019s place stayed at the table, intact. The wedding wasn\u2019t what I\u2019d planned\u2014but it was exactly the wedding I needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I lost my mom when I was 19. She was my best friend, my hero. Ten months after her funeral, my dad remarried\u2014Carol. From the start, she flinched at my mom\u2019s name and went through our house erasing every trace of her. I promised myself my mom would be part of my wedding. On &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9968","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\/9968","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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9970,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}