{"id":80,"date":"2026-01-17T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/?p=80"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:12:38","slug":"my-parents-skipped-my-babys-funeral-for-my-brothers-pool-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"My Parents Skipped My Baby\u2019s Funeral for My Brother\u2019s Pool Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I buried my daughter, Lily Grace, alone on a gray Tuesday morning. Eight weeks of life. Eight weeks of love. Gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I begged my parents to come. They said no. My brother\u2019s pool party was more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the graveside, as I held back tears, I realized something terrifying: they would never understand, and I had to protect my heart. That night, I wrote the truth and posted it online:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy parents skipped my baby\u2019s funeral for my brother\u2019s pool party. Since they didn\u2019t care about my baby, I won\u2019t care about them either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of strangers reached out. They remembered Lily. They held me up when my family never would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally understood: family isn\u2019t blood. Family is who shows up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buried my daughter, Lily Grace, alone on a gray Tuesday morning. Eight weeks of life. Eight weeks of love. Gone. I begged my parents to come&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstoday365.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}