{"id":32164,"date":"2025-12-06T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32164"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:31:35","slug":"32164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32164","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">I felt the familiar ache in my chest, the one that had been my constant companion since childhood. Jasmine was\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">the<\/span><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0daughter. I was just the eldest, the rehearsal child, the one who existed in the background. I was the one who learned early on that love in our household came with conditions I could never quite meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">The next few weeks passed in a blur of excessive consumption. My mother took Jasmine shopping for her dress, a five-thousand-dollar creation of silk and lace that required three separate fittings. They picked out fine china patterns and registered for gifts at boutiques I couldn\u2019t afford to step foot in. My father wrote check after check, his hands steady, his face pleased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32165\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32065 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tap-here.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt the familiar ache in my chest, the one that had been my constant companion since childhood. Jasmine was\u00a0the\u00a0daughter. I was just the eldest, the rehearsal child, the one who existed in the background. I was the one who learned early on that love in our household came with conditions I could never quite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32164\" 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\/32164"}],"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=32164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32171,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32164\/revisions\/32171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}