{"id":132,"date":"2026-07-13T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:25:10","slug":"at-dinner-my-parents-demanded-i-apologize-to-their-golden-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"At dinner, my parents demanded I apologize to their golden  p2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner, my parents demanded I apologize to their golden son or lose my education. I said, &#8220;Alright.&#8221; By dawn, I was packed. My brother\u2019s face drained white: &#8220;Please tell me you didn\u2019t send it.&#8221; Dad froze. &#8220;Send what?&#8221;<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>The nightmare started with my father sliding a printed email across the dinner table like it was a warrant. \u201cSign it,\u201d he said.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>My fork froze over the mashed potatoes. My mother kept smiling at the roast chicken, because in our house denial was practically a side dish. My brother Brandon leaned back in his chair, one ankle on his knee, wearing that lazy golden-boy grin that had gotten him out of every wrecked car, bounced check, and furious ex-girlfriend since high school.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>The paper said I was voluntarily deferring my fall semester at Ellison University.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=133\">NIXT&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At dinner, my parents demanded I apologize to their golden son or lose my education. I said, &#8220;Alright.&#8221; By dawn,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}