{"id":31623,"date":"2025-11-14T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31623"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:46:45","slug":"31623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31623","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie,\u201d Eleanor said firmly. \u201cYour father is here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl\u2019s tear-stained face crumpled. \u201cDaddy, I\u2019m so sorry. I didn\u2019t mean to. They were saying things about Mom and I just\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I held up a hand, my voice miraculously steady despite the earthquake in my chest. \u201cMiss Spencer, can I speak with you privately?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor glanced at Carrie, then nodded. \u201cCarrie, wait outside my office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl fled, and I heard her collapse onto a bench in the hallway, still crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMiss Spencer,\u201d I said carefully, my mind working like an architect calculating load-bearing walls. \u201cI need you to explain what\u2019s happening here. As I told you on the phone, I\u2019ve been married for twelve years. I have no children. I have never met that girl before in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31624\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter 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>Carrie,\u201d Eleanor said firmly. \u201cYour father is here.\u201d The girl\u2019s tear-stained face crumpled. \u201cDaddy, I\u2019m so sorry. I didn\u2019t mean to. They were saying things about Mom and I just\u2026\u201d I held up a hand, my voice miraculously steady despite the earthquake in my chest. \u201cMiss Spencer, can I speak with you privately?\u201d Eleanor glanced&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31623\" 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\/31623"}],"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=31623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31635,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions\/31635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}