{"id":27213,"date":"2025-09-01T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=27213"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:28:53","slug":"27213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=27213","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMom, you\u2019re going to love this!\u201d Tom\u2019s voice had that forced, high-pitched excitement I remembered from when he was twelve and trying to convince me he hadn\u2019t broken a window with his baseball.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_218532_4\" class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_218532\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLove what, honey?\u201d I asked, settling into my chair at the kitchen table, Frank\u2019s empty seat across from me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucas won second place at the district science fair! His solar-powered water filtration system beat sixty other kids!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s wonderful!\u201d And it was. My grandson was a brilliant, compassionate boy. \u201cHe must be so proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is! But here\u2019s the thing,\u201d Tom\u2019s voice got that rushed quality it always gets when he\u2019s building up to an ask. \u201cThe awards assembly is tonight, and Lucas specifically asked if Grandma Helen could come. Afterward, Jessica thought we could all come back to our place, order pizza, make it a real family night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=27215\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMom, you\u2019re going to love this!\u201d Tom\u2019s voice had that forced, high-pitched excitement I remembered from when he was twelve and trying to convince me he hadn\u2019t broken a window with his baseball. \u201cLove what, honey?\u201d I asked, settling into my chair at the kitchen table, Frank\u2019s empty seat across from me. \u201cLucas won second&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=27213\" 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\/27213"}],"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=27213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27217,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213\/revisions\/27217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}