{"id":24936,"date":"2025-08-02T19:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2025-08-02T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T19:42:35","slug":"24936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24936","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zareen had started to come to, blinking in confusion, then looking up at him with sheer panic in her eyes. He nodded at her softly, and she steadied herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was,\u201d he said. \u201cUntil last month. The engagement with Saira was arranged when I was overseas. I told my parents I\u2019d go along with it, but only until I got back. I didn\u2019t want to ruin their pride. But I already knew I was going to propose to Zareen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the room really lost it.<\/p>\n<p>My mother gasped like she\u2019d been slapped. Jeemah stormed forward, pulling at her ridiculous satin dress like it was suffocating her. \u201cYou can\u2019t be serious. She\u2019s not even\u00a0<em>pretty<\/em>. She didn\u2019t even go to college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24924\"><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>Zareen had started to come to, blinking in confusion, then looking up at him with sheer panic in her eyes. He nodded at her softly, and she steadied herself. \u201cI was,\u201d he said. \u201cUntil last month. The engagement with Saira was arranged when I was overseas. I told my parents I\u2019d go along with it,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24936\" 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\/24936"}],"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=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24942,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions\/24942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}