{"id":26748,"date":"2025-08-28T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26748"},"modified":"2025-08-28T22:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:49:34","slug":"26748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26748","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then I heard it\u2014a soft whimper, barely audible. Not the sound of an intruder or a malevolent creature, but of something\u2026 someone who was afraid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1724117\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I glanced back at Murphy, who was still intensely focused on the space under the bed but showed no signs of aggression or alarm. This gave me a sliver of courage. If Murphy wasn\u2019t barking or growling, maybe whatever\u2014or whoever\u2014was under there wasn\u2019t a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Steeling myself, I lowered my voice to a calm, soothing tone. \u201cHello? Who\u2019s there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/readmore.cx\/?p=9790\"><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>Then I heard it\u2014a soft whimper, barely audible. Not the sound of an intruder or a malevolent creature, but of something\u2026 someone who was afraid. I glanced back at Murphy, who was still intensely focused on the space under the bed but showed no signs of aggression or alarm. This gave me a sliver of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26748\" 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\/26748"}],"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=26748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26750,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26748\/revisions\/26750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}