{"id":709,"date":"2011-06-11T21:41:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T02:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbyvanburen.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2011-06-11T21:41:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T02:41:15","slug":"one-invite-too-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/06\/11\/one-invite-too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"One invite too many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I received a bridal shower invitation to a bridal shower I was hoping I would not have to attend.\u00a0 The reason for this is because my connection is to the groom not the bride.\u00a0Therefore, my level of excitement is non- existent.<\/p>\n<p>I contemplated just not attending and sending a gift card instead however; I would feel\u00a0\u00a0 really guilty if I did this course of action.\u00a0 The second biggest<br \/>\nproblem I have with attending this shower is that I am going to be surrounded by strangers and only a few people I am familiar with.\u00a0 I do not enjoy being placed in an environment that makes me uncomfortable unless it is necessary.\u00a0 This situation is unnecessary.\u00a0\u00a0 For this one time I am going to just \u201cbuck<br \/>\nit up\u201d and make the best of the party.\u00a0 I know it will make the bride happy and I would want some \u201cstranger\u201d to do this for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I received a bridal shower invitation to a bridal shower I was hoping I would not have to attend.\u00a0 The reason for this is because my connection is to the groom not the bride.\u00a0Therefore, my level of excitement is non- existent. I contemplated just not attending and sending a gift card &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/06\/11\/one-invite-too-many\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One invite too many&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,19,26,33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-life","category-opinion","category-shopping","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}