{"id":22555,"date":"2025-06-17T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:59:19","slug":"22555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22555","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"652\">Just outside the patio, a boy named Malik lingered by the railing. Small and thin, his eyes scanned tables for scraps or spare change. He was a familiar figure in the neighborhood\u2014ignored, invisible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"826\">Bernard glanced at his watch. \u201cYou\u2019re distracted again,\u201d he said. Marissa smiled, placing her hand over his. \u201cI love these lunches,\u201d she lied, her charm practiced but cold.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"826\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readmore.cx\/?p=4506\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just outside the patio, a boy named Malik lingered by the railing. Small and thin, his eyes scanned tables for scraps or spare change. He was a familiar figure in the neighborhood\u2014ignored, invisible. Bernard glanced at his watch. \u201cYou\u2019re distracted again,\u201d he said. Marissa smiled, placing her hand over his. \u201cI love these lunches,\u201d she&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22555\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/22555"}],"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=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22557,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions\/22557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}