{"id":31704,"date":"2025-11-14T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31704"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:10:24","slug":"31704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31704","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove by the farmhouse that afternoon, or what was left of it. The paint was peeling, the porch sagging, and the once-proud oak tree out front stood half-dead. That house had belonged to my grandfather, a World War II Navy man who\u2019d built it with his own hands when he came back from Okinawa. He used to tell me, \u201cEvery board\u2019s got a story, Evie. If you take care of the wood, it\u2019ll take care of you.\u201d He\u2019d left it to me in his will. Now, my parents wanted it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31706\"><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>I drove by the farmhouse that afternoon, or what was left of it. The paint was peeling, the porch sagging, and the once-proud oak tree out front stood half-dead. That house had belonged to my grandfather, a World War II Navy man who\u2019d built it with his own hands when he came back from Okinawa&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31704\" 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\/31704"}],"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=31704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31714,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31704\/revisions\/31714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}