{"id":64,"date":"2025-05-14T00:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:50:56","slug":"my-stepmom-said-prom-was-a-waste-of-money-right-after-spending-3000-on-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"My Stepmom Said Prom Was &#8216;A Waste of Money&#8217; Right After Spending $3,000 on My"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Prom wasn\u2019t in the cards for me\u2014at least, not according to my stepmother, Madison.<\/strong> When her daughter Ashley got a $3,000 dream dress and I Zasked if I could go too, Madison laughed me off. \u201cOne daughter in the spotlight is enough,\u201d she said, without even looking up. But I didn\u2019t argue. I called the one person Madison tried to erase\u2014<strong>my grandmother, Sylvie<\/strong>. By the next morning, I was at her door. She handed me a garment bag and a slice of cake. Inside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> My late mother\u2019s prom dress\u2014champagne satin, soft and strong, like her. We tailored it together between sips of tea. Her neighbor, Francine, did my hair and makeup with vintage tools and older magic. I arrived at prom quietly, wearing legacy, not labels. Madison, chaperoning, froze when she saw me. Ashley shrank beside her, unsure. Then, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/?p=65\">..READ MORE..<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prom wasn\u2019t in the cards for me\u2014at least, not according to my stepmother, Madison. When her daughter Ashley got a $3,000 dream dress and I Zasked if I could go&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":38,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}