{"id":35247,"date":"2026-09-29T22:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35247"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:13:47","slug":"my-wife-banned-my-father-from-thanksgiving-because-of-his-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35247","title":{"rendered":"My Wife Banned My Father From Thanksgiving Because of His Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>My Wife Banned My Dad From Thanksgiving Because He \u201cSmelled Like a Garage\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My 74-year-old dad had spent 50 years working at GM. To me, the smell of oil meant hard work\u2014not shame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But my wife told him not to come because her parents didn\u2019t want him at the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I said nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Instead, I packed the entire Thanksgiving dinner into my truck and drove to Dad\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We ate together at the old table he had built himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Later, I told my wife the truth: <strong>my father should never have been the one excluded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But what happened at Easter months later changed everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Wife Banned My Dad From Thanksgiving Because He \u201cSmelled Like a Garage\u201d My 74-year-old dad had spent 50 years working at GM. To me, the smell of oil meant hard work\u2014not shame. But my wife told him not to come because her parents didn\u2019t want him at the table. I said nothing. Instead, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35247\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My Wife Banned My Father From Thanksgiving Because of His Job&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35249,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35247\/revisions\/35249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}