{"id":24083,"date":"2025-07-21T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24083"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:27:11","slug":"24083","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24083","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThank you,\u201d I whispered, not sure if he could understand. He licked my wrist like he did.<\/p>\n<p>The crew loaded my brother into the ambulance, and one of them told me which hospital they were heading to. I was already in my car before they finished the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>At the hospital, I waited for over an hour. My phone buzzed with texts I didn\u2019t answer. I just stared at the doors, willing them to open.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a nurse called my name. \u201cHe\u2019s awake,\u201d she said with a tired smile. \u201cStill groggy, but he asked for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I walked in and saw him lying there with a nasal tube and a heart monitor beeping beside him. He looked up at me, ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t mean for it to go that far,\u201d he mumbled. \u201cI just wanted to swim out a bit. Clear my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24085\"><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>\u201cThank you,\u201d I whispered, not sure if he could understand. He licked my wrist like he did. The crew loaded my brother into the ambulance, and one of them told me which hospital they were heading to. I was already in my car before they finished the sentence. At the hospital, I waited for over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24083\" 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\/24083"}],"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=24083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24087,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24083\/revisions\/24087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}