{"id":30474,"date":"2025-10-28T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30474"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:44:00","slug":"30474","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30474","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLeave her alone,\u201d I said softly, but loud enough for them to hear. My voice sounded foreign on that porch, like the squeak of an old floorboard in a new house.<\/p>\n<p>Preston turned to me, a malicious spark flashing in his eyes. He hated it when I interfered. He thought I was just a crazy old woman fussing over her daughter. \u201cEleanor Hayes, don\u2019t worry. We\u2019re just having some fun, right, honey?\u201d He winked at my daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Lena nodded, forcing another smile. \u201cOf course, Mom. Everything\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30475\"><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>\u201cLeave her alone,\u201d I said softly, but loud enough for them to hear. My voice sounded foreign on that porch, like the squeak of an old floorboard in a new house. Preston turned to me, a malicious spark flashing in his eyes. He hated it when I interfered. He thought I was just a crazy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30474\" 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\/30474"}],"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=30474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30484,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474\/revisions\/30484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}