{"id":31764,"date":"2025-11-14T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31764"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:28:51","slug":"31764","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31764","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The front door opened as I came back down the hall.\u00a0<strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Mrs. Patterson<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0from next door, carrying a casserole dish. \u201cSimon, you\u2019re back! How\u2019s the knee? Have you seen Chester?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen did you last see him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She blinked at something in my tone. \u201cTuesday morning, early. He had big suitcases. Said something about finally getting a break.\u201d She smiled uncertainly. \u201cLooked happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything\u2019s fine,\u201d I said, taking the casserole and closing the door with careful control.<\/p>\n<p>In the kitchen, I found takeout containers in the trash. Chinese food, one meal\u2019s worth. Chester had eaten before he left. Fed himself, packed his bags, and walked out while his mother slept.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31765\"><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 front door opened as I came back down the hall.\u00a0Mrs. Patterson\u00a0from next door, carrying a casserole dish. \u201cSimon, you\u2019re back! How\u2019s the knee? Have you seen Chester?\u201d \u201cWhen did you last see him?\u201d She blinked at something in my tone. \u201cTuesday morning, early. He had big suitcases. Said something about finally getting a break.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31764\" 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\/31764"}],"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=31764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31776,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764\/revisions\/31776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}