{"id":31703,"date":"2025-11-14T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31703"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:10:34","slug":"31703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31703","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knox tilted his head as I held the jacket up to the light. \u201cGuess they\u2019ll see who I really became,\u201d I said softly.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, I called the courthouse. \u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d the clerk confirmed. \u201cYour parents are petitioning to have the family property transferred to them on grounds of abandonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I bit down a sharp laugh.\u00a0<span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Abandonment?<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0I was serving overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa\u2019am, you\u2019ll need to appear in person if you wish to contest it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thanked her and hung up. Abandonment. The word dug deep. That was what my father had called me the night I enlisted.\u00a0<span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cYou\u2019re abandoning your family,\u201d<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0he\u2019d said, red-faced and furious, grease stains on his mechanic\u2019s hands.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cNo, Dad,\u201d<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0I\u2019d replied,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u201cI\u2019m just trying to serve something bigger than myself.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0He never forgave me for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31704\"><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>Knox tilted his head as I held the jacket up to the light. \u201cGuess they\u2019ll see who I really became,\u201d I said softly. The next morning, I called the courthouse. \u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d the clerk confirmed. \u201cYour parents are petitioning to have the family property transferred to them on grounds of abandonment.\u201d I bit down a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31703\" 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\/31703"}],"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=31703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31715,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31703\/revisions\/31715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}