{"id":32202,"date":"2025-12-06T16:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32202"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:46:58","slug":"32202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32202","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He looked sad. That was the word that struck me instantly. He wore his solitude like a heavy coat he couldn\u2019t take off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood evening, sir,\u201d I said, pitching my voice to that perfect frequency of polite deference. \u201cMy name is Lucia. I\u2019ll be taking care of you tonight. Can I start you with something to drink?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looked up. His eyes were a piercing, intelligent blue, but they looked tired. \u201cRed wine. A Cabernet. Whatever you recommend. The bottle is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0<strong class=\"ng-star-inserted\"><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">Tignanello<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\u00a0is excellent tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat will do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_218532_4\" class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_218532\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I went through the motions. I brought the wine, decanted it, poured a glass. He barely noticed. He just stared out the window at the Manhattan skyline, a city he essentially owned a piece of, yet he looked completely detached from it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32203\"><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>He looked sad. That was the word that struck me instantly. He wore his solitude like a heavy coat he couldn\u2019t take off. \u201cGood evening, sir,\u201d I said, pitching my voice to that perfect frequency of polite deference. \u201cMy name is Lucia. I\u2019ll be taking care of you tonight. Can I start you with something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=32202\" 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\/32202"}],"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=32202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32206,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32202\/revisions\/32206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}