{"id":2287,"date":"2026-01-30T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:49:25","slug":"i-took-my-parents-in-when-they-lost-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"I Took My Parents in When They Lost Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-15256\" class=\"post-15256 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-stories\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1804353\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For as long as I can remember, I was the family fixer. Not the adorable big-sister-who-braids-your-hair type\u2014no, I was the one who paid bills at sixteen,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>made grocery lists by fourteen, and somehow became the third parent before I hit high school. While my classmates were learning algebra, I was figuring out how to keep the lights on when my parents took off on a whim.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1505412\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>They were adventurers, they said. Free spirits. Translation? Irresponsible. They drove to music festivals and spontaneous getaways while I rationed lunch meat and clipped coupons to feed myself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p>Still, I didn\u2019t complain. I thought I was helping. That someone had to be the adult, and since I had the bandwidth, it might as well be me.\u00a0<strong>Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-tags\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"entry-footer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1505415\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I was the family fixer. Not the adorable big-sister-who-braids-your-hair type\u2014no, I was the one who paid bills at sixteen, made grocery lists by &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}