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    <body type="string">&lt;P&gt;I am customizing the recent posts widget where in I have to show the latest reply with the parent post, but I am getting an issue with getting the parent post of the main topic (which ofcourse would be a null as it is the parent post itselt), how can I just show the main post in this case&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am getting the parent of the recent post by&amp;nbsp;/messages/id/${posts.id}/parent but this causes exception when this is running for the original post as it does not find the parent for it.&lt;/P&gt;</body>
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