{"id":31541,"date":"2025-11-14T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31541"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:23:51","slug":"31541","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31541","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">They\u2019d always been close, those two. Dad had left when Melissa was five and I was twelve, and Mom had poured all her energy into my sister. I understood it; Melissa had taken the divorce harder than I had. But there were times I felt like an afterthought in my own family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We came home from the hospital on a Friday afternoon. Marcus had cleaned the entire house, set up the nursery exactly how we planned, and stocked the fridge with easy meals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31542\"><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>They\u2019d always been close, those two. Dad had left when Melissa was five and I was twelve, and Mom had poured all her energy into my sister. I understood it; Melissa had taken the divorce harder than I had. But there were times I felt like an afterthought in my own family. We came home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31541\" 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\/31541"}],"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=31541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31553,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31541\/revisions\/31553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}