{"id":11116,"date":"2023-09-21T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/miserable-human-british-columbia-woman-defends-fathers-harsh-obituary\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T10:59:08","slug":"miserable-human-british-columbia-woman-defends-fathers-harsh-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/miserable-human-british-columbia-woman-defends-fathers-harsh-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Miserable human&#8217;: British Columbia woman defends father&#8217;s harsh obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0zLJ3oyhfk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Few obituaries begin with the words, &#8220;I am pleased to announce&#8221; \u2013 but Amanda Denis believes in blunt honesty.<\/p>\n<p>When the Ontario resident&#8217;s estranged father died halfway across the country in B.C.&#8217;s Okanagan, Denis felt compelled to share a few choice remarks about the man she describes as a &#8220;miserable human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The obituary that resulted \u2013 which Denis ultimately had to publish on her own, after being rejected by her father&#8217;s funeral home \u2013 clearly struck a nerve, getting shared thousands of times on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\nSubscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few obituaries begin with the words, &#8220;I am pleased to announce&#8221; \u2013 but Amanda Denis believes in blunt honesty. When the Ontario resident&#8217;s estranged father died halfway across the country in B.C.&#8217;s Okanagan, Denis felt compelled to share a few&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[848,2754,2755,833,11301,48,11300,866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}