{"id":30346,"date":"2025-10-28T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30346"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:24:27","slug":"30346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30346","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Kenneth Dunar. I joined the army at eighteen, chasing a sense of purpose after my father, a decorated Vietnam vet, died from complications of Agent Orange exposure. My mother had remarried quickly\u2014too quickly\u2014to a man who brought a son into our lives.\u00a0<strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Michael<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">, two years my junior. He was charming where I was reserved, smooth where I was direct. We had<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30348\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Kenneth Dunar. I joined the army at eighteen, chasing a sense of purpose after my father, a decorated Vietnam vet, died from complications of Agent Orange exposure. My mother had remarried quickly\u2014too quickly\u2014to a man who brought a son into our lives.\u00a0Michael, two years my junior. He was charming where I was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30346\" 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\/30346"}],"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=30346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30366,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30346\/revisions\/30366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}