{"id":28526,"date":"2025-10-07T18:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28526"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:48:52","slug":"28526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28526","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, my younger brother\u00a0<strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Mason<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0was the star. Charismatic, reckless, and perpetually getting himself into some kind of trouble, he somehow always landed on his feet. He possessed a smug charm that my parents consumed like candy. Even when he dropped out of college, blew through two jobs in six months, and ended up moving back home at twenty-eight, they still defended him with the fierce loyalty usually reserved for prodigies or saints. I, on the other hand, had paid my own way through school with scholarships and part-time jobs, held down the same demanding position in my firm for over a decade, and helped cover a portion of their mortgage when my dad\u2019s hours at the plant were cut. But none of that ever seemed to matter. At least not enough to earn me a seat at the metaphorical head of the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><a href=\"https:\/\/readmore.cx\/?p=15998\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26790 size-full\" 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><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, my younger brother\u00a0Mason\u00a0was the star. Charismatic, reckless, and perpetually getting himself into some kind of trouble, he somehow always landed on his feet. He possessed a smug charm that my parents consumed like candy. Even when he dropped out of college, blew through two jobs in six months, and ended up moving back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28526\" 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\/28526"}],"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=28526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28531,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28526\/revisions\/28531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}