{"id":663037,"date":"2026-10-31T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663037\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T21:20:08","slug":"asking-eric-family-friend-demands-hugs-despite-parents-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663037\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Eric: Family friend demands hugs, despite parents\u2019 objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7F7JFZAFBBHUTISLEQ7VWU73HY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Eric: We recently traveled to a nearby city to visit my mother. While we were there, Mom\u2019s friend Helen stopped by for a visit. We have met Helen before and know her to be a hugger. My 16-year-old daughter Missy, in order to avoid the inevitable hug, stationed herself on the far side of the dining room table but Helen, not to be denied, rounded the table with arms outstretched. Missy, at our suggestion, extended her hand for a handshake but Helen moved to sweep her arm away. Missy took a step back and said, \u201cI don\u2019t like to hug.\u201d At this point I stepped in to redirect the conversation and the hugging issue was dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Eric: We recently traveled to a nearby city to visit my mother. While we were there, Mom\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":["post-663037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}