{"id":6842,"date":"2025-08-19T12:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:55:49","slug":"my-family-demanded-my-late-sons-college-fund-i-said-okay-but-only-under-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=6842","title":{"rendered":"My Family Demanded My Late Son&#8217;s College Fund \u2013 I Said: &#8216;Okay but Only Under One Condition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"394\">Scott, a single dad, lost his 15-year-old son Ben to a heart condition. While most of Scott\u2019s family kept their distance during Ben\u2019s illness, Ben\u2019s best friend Daniel never left his side\u2014visiting weekly, cheering him up, and being there even in Ben\u2019s final moments. Before he died, Ben asked his dad to give his college fund to Daniel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"741\">After the funeral, Scott\u2019s family demanded the $25,000 fund, insisting it should \u201cstay in the family.\u201d At a family dinner, Scott challenged them: none of them had been there for Ben, but Daniel had. He told them he would give the money away\u2014on one condition: that they recall Ben\u2019s last day. None of them could, because they hadn\u2019t been there.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"967\">Scott honored his son\u2019s wish and gave the fund to Daniel, helping him start college. For Scott, family wasn\u2019t about blood\u2014it was about who showed up. And Daniel, more than anyone else, had proven himself to be real family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott, a single dad, lost his 15-year-old son Ben to a heart condition. While most of Scott\u2019s family kept their distance during Ben\u2019s illness, Ben\u2019s best friend Daniel never left his side\u2014visiting weekly, cheering him up, and being there even in Ben\u2019s final moments. Before he died, Ben asked his dad to give his college &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions\/6844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}