{"id":30349,"date":"2025-10-28T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30349"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:24:06","slug":"30349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30349","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">blonde, perfectly maintained, always camera-ready. Still carrying the psychic weight of my first deployment to Iraq, I had been drawn to her lightness, her apparent normalcy. She represented everything I thought I was fighting for: the American dream, stability, home. We married within eight months. She was twenty-two; I was twenty-five.<\/span><\/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>The kids came quickly.\u00a0<strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Emma<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">, now seven, and\u00a0<\/span><strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Jackson<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">, five. I tried to be present, but the army had other plans. When you\u2019re good at what you do in Special Operations, they keep sending you back. This last deployment had been the longest: sixteen months in East Africa, training<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30350\"><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>blonde, perfectly maintained, always camera-ready. Still carrying the psychic weight of my first deployment to Iraq, I had been drawn to her lightness, her apparent normalcy. She represented everything I thought I was fighting for: the American dream, stability, home. We married within eight months. She was twenty-two; I was twenty-five. The kids came quickly.\u00a0Emma,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30349\" 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\/30349"}],"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=30349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30364,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30349\/revisions\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}