{"id":23727,"date":"2025-07-16T19:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23727"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:42:27","slug":"23727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23727","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stood there frozen. My face was hot and I didn\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n<p>He clicked his tongue, and the younger dog started moving again. The cart wheels creaked behind them, slow and steady, as they disappeared down the trail.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t stopped thinking about it since. How long can he keep going like this?<\/p>\n<p>For the next few days, I avoided the trail. Not on purpose, exactly, but something about seeing him unsettled me. Maybe it was guilt. Or shame. Or just\u2026 being reminded that love looks different when it\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23729\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood there frozen. My face was hot and I didn\u2019t know why. He clicked his tongue, and the younger dog started moving again. The cart wheels creaked behind them, slow and steady, as they disappeared down the trail. I haven\u2019t stopped thinking about it since. How long can he keep going like this? For&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23727\" 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\/23727"}],"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=23727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23734,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions\/23734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}