{"id":30352,"date":"2025-10-28T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30352"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:23:33","slug":"30352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30352","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stared at the screen, reading it three times, the words failing to compute. The Uber driver glanced in the rearview mirror, his eyes meeting mine for a second before he quickly looked away. Something in my face warned against conversation. Four deployments. Sixteen years of my life. I\u2019d carried wounded soldiers under fire, had made decisions that saved lives and took them, had missed my children\u2019s childhoods so other people\u2019s children could grow up safe. And this was my homecoming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30336\"><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>I stared at the screen, reading it three times, the words failing to compute. The Uber driver glanced in the rearview mirror, his eyes meeting mine for a second before he quickly looked away. Something in my face warned against conversation. Four deployments. Sixteen years of my life. I\u2019d carried wounded soldiers under fire, had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30352\" 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\/30352"}],"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=30352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30361,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions\/30361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}