{"id":31622,"date":"2025-11-14T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31622"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:46:56","slug":"31622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31622","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The girl sat in a chair against the wall, hunched over with her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking with sobs. She was maybe fourteen or fifteen, with dark hair that fell past her shoulders in unruly waves. When she looked up at the sound of my voice, I felt the floor tilt beneath me. She had my eyes\u2014that specific, rare shade of hazel-green that came from my mother\u2019s side of the family. She had the same slightly crooked nose I\u2019d earned playing baseball in high school. The same widow\u2019s peak hairline. It was like looking at a ghost of a past I didn\u2019t know I\u2019d lived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31623\"><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>The girl sat in a chair against the wall, hunched over with her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking with sobs. She was maybe fourteen or fifteen, with dark hair that fell past her shoulders in unruly waves. When she looked up at the sound of my voice, I felt the floor tilt beneath&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31622\" 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\/31622"}],"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=31622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31636,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31622\/revisions\/31636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}