{"id":23300,"date":"2025-07-06T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23300"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:44:08","slug":"23300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23300","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter was.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie, sitting criss-cross in that crate like it was a fort gone wrong. Her cheeks were red and puffed like she\u2019d been crying. And her twin brother? Standing barefoot beside it, pointing at her like this was part of some twisted game. I froze. My brain couldn\u2019t catch up fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the hell is going on?\u201d I finally shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsie looked up from her phone in the kitchen\u2014calm as ever\u2014and said, \u201cOh, they were playing zoo. She wanted to be the tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23302\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22225\" 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>My daughter was. Ellie, sitting criss-cross in that crate like it was a fort gone wrong. Her cheeks were red and puffed like she\u2019d been crying. And her twin brother? Standing barefoot beside it, pointing at her like this was part of some twisted game. I froze. My brain couldn\u2019t catch up fast enough. \u201cWhat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23300\" 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\/23300"}],"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=23300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23305,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23300\/revisions\/23305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}