{"id":427,"date":"2026-07-15T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:24:00","slug":"427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"MY STEPMOM MOCKED THE PROM DRESS MY BROTHER SEWED FOR ME FROM OUR LATE MOM&#8217;S JEANS P1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MY STEPMOM MOCKED THE PROM DRESS MY BROTHER SEWED FOR ME FROM OUR LATE MOM&#8217;S JEANS \u2014 BUT FATE HAD OTHER PLANS FOR HER.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;Prom dresses are a ridiculous waste of money.&#8221;<br class=\"html-br\" \/>My stepmom didn&#8217;t even glance up from her phone.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I stood in the kitchen holding a flyer about prom deadlines.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;Mom left money for things like this,&#8221; I said.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Carla laughed.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>&#8220;That money keeps this house running now. Besides, nobody wants to see you in some overpriced princess dress.&#8221;<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Then she dropped HER BRAND-NEW DESIGNER HANDBAG onto the counter.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>The tag was still hanging from it.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>My dad d:ied last year from a sudden heart attack. Since then, Carla has controlled every dollar in the house, including the money Mom left for me and my younger brother.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>So that was the answer.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No dress.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No prom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=428\">NIXT&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY STEPMOM MOCKED THE PROM DRESS MY BROTHER SEWED FOR ME FROM OUR LATE MOM&#8217;S JEANS \u2014 BUT FATE HAD&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","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\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}