{"id":30244,"date":"2025-10-28T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30244"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:33:54","slug":"30244","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30244","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"3896\" data-end=\"4003\">Olivia got up, wiped her palms on her pants, and ran on. Not a word. The laughter followed her all morning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4005\" data-end=\"4183\">During a break, Olivia sat on a wooden bench, pulling a granola bar from her bag. Tara sauntered over with two other cadets, her arms crossed, her voice syrupy with fake concern.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4185\" data-end=\"4276\">\u201cOlivia, right? So, like, where are you even from? Did you\u2014what?\u2014win a contest to be here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4278\" data-end=\"4348\">Her friends giggled, one covering her mouth like it was all too funny.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4350\" data-end=\"4470\">Olivia took a bite, chewed slowly, and looked up. \u201cI applied.\u201d She set her voice flat, like she was stating the weather.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4472\" data-end=\"4613\">Terra\u2019s smile tightened. \u201cOkay, but why?\u201d she pressed, leaning in. \u201cYou don\u2019t exactly scream elite soldier. I mean, look at your everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4615\" data-end=\"4680\">She waved a hand at Olivia\u2019s muddy T-shirt, her plain brown hair.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"4615\" data-end=\"4680\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30245\"><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>Olivia got up, wiped her palms on her pants, and ran on. Not a word. The laughter followed her all morning. During a break, Olivia sat on a wooden bench, pulling a granola bar from her bag. Tara sauntered over with two other cadets, her arms crossed, her voice syrupy with fake concern. \u201cOlivia, right?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30244\" 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\/30244"}],"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=30244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30251,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30244\/revisions\/30251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}