{"id":5950,"date":"2026-09-09T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:41:00","slug":"harriets-tablet-showed-the-passenger-exactly-who-was-breaking-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Harriet\u2019s Tablet Showed the Passenger Exactly Who Was Breaking the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet had opened the airline\u2019s passenger policy on her tablet. She held the screen toward the woman and calmly said, \u201cIt says my mom is allowed to feed my brother in her seat. It also says the bathroom isn\u2019t an appropriate place to feed a baby.\u201d Then Harriet tapped the flight-attendant button before adding, \u201cAnd you\u2019ve been yelling at her since we got on the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ellipsis\" id=\"ellipsis-1079764134\">...<\/span><span class=\"rmwp-button-wrap\" id=\"rmwp-button-wrap-1079764134\" style=\"display: none;\"><button name=\"read more\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"rmwpButtonAction( '1079764134', 'READ MORE', 'READ LESS' )\">READ MORE<\/button><\/span><div class=\"rmwp-toggle \" id=\"rmwp-toggle-1079764134\" style=\"display: none\">          The woman\u2019s face changed instantly. She jumped up, loudly demanded another seat, and insisted that we were making her uncomfortable. By then, several passengers had heard enough. A flight attendant came over, listened to what had happened, and politely confirmed that I was allowed to breastfeed my baby where I was sitting. Nobody was going to make me hide in a lavatory to feed a four-month-old child. Since the woman was the one demanding to move, the crew found another available seat for her farther back.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Harriet returned to me and whispered, \u201cMom, you didn\u2019t do anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That nearly made me cry.<\/p>\n<p>I had spent the previous month simply trying to keep moving after losing my husband, and somewhere along the way, I had become accustomed to apologizing for taking up space.<\/p>\n<p>My nine-year-old daughter reminded me of something I had forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes standing up for someone does not require shouting.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it only requires knowing they have every right to be there.                          <\/div><div class='rmwp-toggle-end'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet had opened the airline\u2019s passenger policy on her tablet. She held the screen toward the woman and calmly said, \u201cIt says my mom is allowed to feed my brother in her seat. It also says the bathroom isn\u2019t an appropriate place to feed a baby.\u201d Then Harriet tapped the flight-attendant button before adding, \u201cAnd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ternalnews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}