{"id":60640,"date":"2025-05-23T10:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60640"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:06:42","slug":"my-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60640","title":{"rendered":"My Nephew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-554.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-554.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-554-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Family loyalty has limits, and I found mine the day my nephew crashed my car and no one owned up to it. I was ready to let it go\u2014until karma gave me the perfect opening for justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name\u2019s Betty. I\u2019m the forgotten sibling, the childless, divorced, never-good-enough daughter. My brother Peter\u2019s the golden boy\u2014he\u2019s got the business, the marriage, the straight-A son, Nick, who barely speaks to anyone. I\u2019m an eighth-grade English teacher with a dog named Charlie and a garden that makes me feel whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d just bought myself a new blue SUV\u2014my first real splurge. Nick asked to drive it. I said, \u201cYard work first.\u201d He scoffed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my 40th birthday, I hosted a party. My friends showed up with wine and warmth. My family came late and cold. Then I heard tires screeching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My SUV was wrecked. Nick climbed out like it was nothing. When I confronted him, he denied it. Everyone backed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, Peter asked me to lie to the police\u2014to protect Nick\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That day, I chose truth over family fiction. And finally, I chose myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=60612\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family loyalty has limits, and I found mine the day my nephew crashed my car and no one owned up to it. I was ready to let&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60643,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60640\/revisions\/60643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}