{"id":17872,"date":"2024-09-12T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=17872"},"modified":"2024-09-12T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:34:08","slug":"my-dad-left-me-when-i-was-13-ten-years-later-i-saw-him-on-the-side-of-the-road-hitchhiking-with-a-little-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=17872","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Left Me When I Was 13 \u2014 Ten Years Later, I Saw Him on the Side of the Road Hitchhiking with a Little Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day my dad left when I was 13, it felt like my entire world fell apart. I watched as his car drove away, taking my sense of safety with him. My mom, Crystal, and I clung to each other, promising we\u2019d be okay. Over the next ten years, we slowly healed together, forming an unbreakable bond.<\/p>\n<p>One evening, driving home, I saw a hitchhiker\u2014a man with a little girl. When I pulled over, my heart stopped. It was my dad. He looked older, worn down. The girl wasn\u2019t my sister, just a child he had been taking care of after her mother left them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=17873\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17627 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Readmore-1-1-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day my dad left when I was 13, it felt like my entire world fell apart. I watched as his car drove away, taking my sense of safety with him. My mom, Crystal, and I clung to each other, promising we\u2019d be okay. Over the next ten years, we slowly healed together, forming an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=17872\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My Dad Left Me When I Was 13 \u2014 Ten Years Later, I Saw Him on the Side of the Road Hitchhiking with a Little Girl&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17876,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17872\/revisions\/17876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}