public function create() {
		$event = parent::create();

		// We cannot be 100% this will always be a post object, so let's just try to get it.
		$event_post = get_post( $event );

		if ( empty( $event ) || ! $event_post instanceof WP_Post ) {
			// No sense in going on.
			$this->create_recurrence_payload = false;

			return $event;
		}

		try {
			set_error_handler( array( $this, 'cast_error_to_exception' ) );

			/*
			 * Many methods "down the road" might expect prefixed or un-prefixed meta keys, e.g. `_EventStartDate`
			 * and `EventStartDate` so we "duplicate" them now in the payload; this covers back-compatibility too.
			 * Recurrence handling methods should handle the case where the recurrence data is empty.
			 */
			if ( empty( $this->create_recurrence_payload ) ) {
				// If the recurrence payload information is still empty then fill it up w/ the event meta.
				$event_meta         = Tribe__Utils__Array::flatten(
					Tribe__Utils__Array::filter_prefixed( get_post_meta( $event_post->ID ), '_Event' )
				);
				$recurrence_payload = Tribe__Utils__Array::add_unprefixed_keys_to( $event_meta );
			} else {
				$recurrence_payload = Tribe__Utils__Array::add_unprefixed_keys_to( $this->create_recurrence_payload );
			}

			$callback           = $this->get_recurrence_creation_callback( $event_post->ID, $recurrence_payload, $this->postarr );

			/*
			 * Since the burden of logging and handling falls on the callback we're not collecting this value.
			 * Filtering callbacks might return empty or falsy values for other reasons than a failure; an
			 * exception is the correct way to signal an error.
			 */
			$callback( $event_post->ID, $recurrence_payload );
		} catch ( Exception $e ) {
			// Something happened, let's log and move on.
			tribe( 'logger' )->log(
				'There was an error updating the recurrence rules and/or exclusions for event ' . $event_post->ID . ': ' . $e->getMessage(),
				Tribe__Log::ERROR,
				__CLASS__
			);
			restore_error_handler();

			return $event;
		}

		restore_error_handler();

		return $event;
	}