{"id":23761,"date":"2025-07-17T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:35:11","slug":"23761","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23761","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Mom let us come out on our own. Said we were old enough.<\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t talk much. Just traced the letters in silence\u2014<strong>ALFRED DAVID BRAZEL<\/strong>\u2014and tried to feel something other than that empty stretch of what if.<\/p>\n<p>Then my brother pulled something out of his jacket. A little envelope. Said it came in the mail two days ago, addressed to \u201cThe Brazel Kids.\u201d No return address. Just typed letters. No stamps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23763\"><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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Mom let us come out on our own. Said we were old enough. We didn\u2019t talk much. Just traced the letters in silence\u2014ALFRED DAVID BRAZEL\u2014and tried to feel something other than that empty stretch of what if. Then my brother pulled something out of his jacket. A little envelope. Said it came in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=23761\" 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\/23761"}],"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=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23772,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions\/23772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}