{"id":32020,"date":"2025-12-04T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32020"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:59:56","slug":"32020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32020","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The girl couldn\u2019t utter a word. Her heart was pounding, her breath uneven. He stepped back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 I disgust you, don\u2019t I? I\u2019m sorry\u2026 I never meant to scare you.<\/p>\n<p>She shook her head and said softly:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 No\u2026 you don\u2019t disgust me. I just need time to adjust. I thought there was an old man under the mask. But you\u2026 you\u2019re different. And you saved my family. I don\u2019t know what the future holds, but\u2026 you\u2019re not frightening. I was just in shock.<\/p>\n<p>He smiled for the first time in many years \u2014 cautiously, as if afraid even that might hurt her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girl couldn\u2019t utter a word. Her heart was pounding, her breath uneven. He stepped back. \u2014 I disgust you, don\u2019t I? I\u2019m sorry\u2026 I never meant to scare you. She shook her head and said softly: \u2014 No\u2026 you don\u2019t disgust me. I just need time to adjust. I thought there was an old&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32020\" 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\/32020"}],"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=32020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32022,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32020\/revisions\/32022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}