{"id":4398,"date":"2026-01-27T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:37:23","slug":"4398","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/?p=4398","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then,\u00a0<i>Ting, ting, ting.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Gregory Hart, my father, tapped his champagne flute. The music stuttered and stopped. The chatter faded into an expectant hush. He stood near the towering seven-tiered cake, immaculate in his custom tuxedo, the picture of paternal pride.<\/p>\n<p>But I wasn\u2019t looking at his smile. I was smelling the air. The scent of high-end bourbon rolled off him in waves, cutting through the flowers. To everyone else, he was the charming patriarch. To me, that smell was a precursor to breakage, to slammed doors and quiet tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome,\u201d he boomed. \u201cWelcome, friends, family, and to my new son-in-law, Ethan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/?p=4396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2126 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/comntinue-reading-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then,\u00a0Ting, ting, ting. Gregory Hart, my father, tapped his champagne flute. The music stuttered and stopped. The chatter faded into an expectant hush. He stood near the towering seven-tiered cake, immaculate in his custom tuxedo, the picture of paternal pride. But I wasn\u2019t looking at his smile. I was smelling the air. The scent of &#8230; <a title=\"\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/?p=4398\" aria-label=\"Read more about \">Read more<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4408,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions\/4408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}