{"id":24615,"date":"2025-07-26T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24615"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:38:09","slug":"mom-showed-up-in-a-white-dress-on-my-wedding-day-but-i-was-ready-for-the-perfect-rebuttal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24615","title":{"rendered":"Mom Showed Up in a White Dress on My Wedding Day \u2014 But I Was Ready for the Perfect Rebuttal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"521\">The sun was warm on my shoulders as I sat on the porch, flipping through a magazine, when Linda came charging out with a glint in her eye and an envelope in her hand.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"594\">\u201cIt\u2019s here!\u201d she said breathlessly. \u201cDavid and Emily\u2019s wedding invite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"594\">I smiled. David and I had served together in the Coast Guard\u2014three years, a lot of storms, and even more stories. He was as no-nonsense as they came. His fianc\u00e9e, Emily, from what I\u2019d seen, matched him in quiet strength. They were a perfect fit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"594\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24617\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was warm on my shoulders as I sat on the porch, flipping through a magazine, when Linda came charging out with a glint in her eye and an envelope in her hand. \u201cIt\u2019s here!\u201d she said breathlessly. \u201cDavid and Emily\u2019s wedding invite.\u201d I smiled. David and I had served together in the Coast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24615\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mom Showed Up in a White Dress on My Wedding Day \u2014 But I Was Ready for the Perfect Rebuttal&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24628,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24615\/revisions\/24628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}