{"id":26592,"date":"2025-08-27T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26592"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:36:43","slug":"26592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26592","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMom,\u201d his voice sounded strained. \u201cAbout tomorrow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Something in his tone made me grip the edge of the counter. \u201cWhat about it, honey? I\u2019ve got Christine\u2019s gift already, and I made those lemon cookies the kids love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A heavy silence stretched between us. \u201cThat\u2019s just it, Mom. Christine thought it would be easier to just keep it small this year. Family only.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26594\"><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>\u201cMom,\u201d his voice sounded strained. \u201cAbout tomorrow\u2026\u201d Something in his tone made me grip the edge of the counter. \u201cWhat about it, honey? I\u2019ve got Christine\u2019s gift already, and I made those lemon cookies the kids love.\u201d A heavy silence stretched between us. \u201cThat\u2019s just it, Mom. Christine thought it would be easier to just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26592\" 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\/26592"}],"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=26592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26631,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592\/revisions\/26631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}