{"id":469,"date":"2026-06-04T06:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/?p=469"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:08:43","slug":"%f0%9f%98%b2-my-sister-thought-she-won-by-choosing-the-better-groom-she-had-no-idea-what-i-chose-instead-%f0%9f%91%87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\ude32 My Sister Thought She Won by Choosing the \u201cBetter\u201d Groom\u2014She Had No Idea What I Chose Instead  \ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I grew up knowing one thing from the start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I was never my father\u2019s favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That place belonged to my older sister, Victoria. She was everything I wasn\u2019t\u2014effortlessly beautiful, endlessly charming, and always the one who seemed to do everything right in our parents\u2019 eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So when it came time for marriage, I already knew how it would go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Victoria chose what everyone called the \u201cbetter groom\u201d\u2014wealthy, polished, and approved by the family without hesitation. It looked like she had won in every possible way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But what no one knew was that I had made a different choice entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And I didn\u2019t choose for approval, status, or appearance.<\/p>\n<p>I chose something that would change everything she thought she had won\u2014and reveal the truth none of them were prepared for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I grew up knowing one thing from the start. I was never my father\u2019s favorite. That place belonged to my older sister, Victoria. She was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/deanova.net\/?p=469\" title=\"\ud83d\ude32 My Sister Thought She Won by Choosing the \u201cBetter\u201d Groom\u2014She Had No Idea What I Chose Instead  \ud83d\udc47\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanova.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}