{"id":28230,"date":"2025-10-03T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28230"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:53:06","slug":"28230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28230","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upstairs, I could hear\u00a0Charlotte, our eight-year-old daughter, humming while she drew. She was probably creating another picture of the three of us, a perfect, unbroken circle of a family that, in her mind, still existed. A vice tightened around my chest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_218532_3\" class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_218532\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been out for six months,\u201d I said, my voice quiet, stripped of any accusation. \u201cI took the desk job you asked for. I\u2019m home every night by six.\u201d<\/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>\u201cSix months doesn\u2019t erase eight years of absence,\u201d Christy finally looked at me then, and I saw something in her eyes I\u2019d never detected in a subject before: rehearsed conviction. She had practiced this speech in the mirror. \u201cI want a divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28232\"><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>Upstairs, I could hear\u00a0Charlotte, our eight-year-old daughter, humming while she drew. She was probably creating another picture of the three of us, a perfect, unbroken circle of a family that, in her mind, still existed. A vice tightened around my chest. \u201cI\u2019ve been out for six months,\u201d I said, my voice quiet, stripped of any&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28230\" 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\/28230"}],"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=28230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28235,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions\/28235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}