{"id":24508,"date":"2025-07-25T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24508"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:34:05","slug":"24508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24508","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The judge turned his eyes toward Zaden. \u201cSon,\u201d he said gently, \u201cis that true? Do you want to live with your father?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everything inside me stopped. My heart, my breath, my hope. I wanted to scream that it wasn\u2019t fair to ask an 8-year-old that question in a room full of strangers, with his father staring down at him like a shadow. But I said nothing. I waited.<\/p>\n<p>Zaden stood up. He didn\u2019t answer right away. He reached into the pocket of his tiny gray jacket, pulled something out, and held it up for the judge to see. It was my old phone. I\u2019d given it to him to play games on a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24510\"><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 judge turned his eyes toward Zaden. \u201cSon,\u201d he said gently, \u201cis that true? Do you want to live with your father?\u201d Everything inside me stopped. My heart, my breath, my hope. I wanted to scream that it wasn\u2019t fair to ask an 8-year-old that question in a room full of strangers, with his father&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24508\" 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\/24508"}],"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=24508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24518,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508\/revisions\/24518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}