{"id":31133,"date":"2025-11-01T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31133"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:08:47","slug":"31133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31133","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He kissed me goodbye at the bus stop, his hand lingering on my still-flat stomach. \u201cTake care of our baby,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the bus disappear down the road, dust swirling in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>That was the last time I saw him.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p>By the time my pregnancy started showing, Ethan had been gone for two months. I\u2019d sent letters to the address he\u2019d given me\u2014his aunt swore it was correct\u2014but received no replies. The town began to notice, and the whispers followed me everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHannah\u2019s putting on weight,\u201d someone would say at the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo husband yet, though,\u201d another would add. \u201cProbably knocked up by some city boy who used her and ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31060\"><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>He kissed me goodbye at the bus stop, his hand lingering on my still-flat stomach. \u201cTake care of our baby,\u201d he said. I watched the bus disappear down the road, dust swirling in its wake. That was the last time I saw him. By the time my pregnancy started showing, Ethan had been gone for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31133\" 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\/31133"}],"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=31133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31142,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31133\/revisions\/31142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}