{"id":24079,"date":"2025-07-21T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24079"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:27:47","slug":"24079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24079","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The person in the water\u2014soaking, flailing, barely conscious\u2014was wearing the same windbreaker I\u2019d helped pack into a duffel just this morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was my brother.<\/p>\n<p>And then I remembered what he told me last night, right before slamming the door\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t take it anymore, Evan. Everyone\u2019s got it figured out but me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hadn\u2019t come back after that. I\u2019d thought he\u2019d just gone to clear his head, maybe sleep in his car like he sometimes did. I didn\u2019t think he\u2019d go near the lake. He hated the cold, hated the idea of deep water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24081\"><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>The person in the water\u2014soaking, flailing, barely conscious\u2014was wearing the same windbreaker I\u2019d helped pack into a duffel just this morning. It was my brother. And then I remembered what he told me last night, right before slamming the door\u2026 \u201cI can\u2019t take it anymore, Evan. Everyone\u2019s got it figured out but me.\u201d He hadn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24079\" 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\/24079"}],"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=24079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24089,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions\/24089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}