{"id":19370,"date":"2025-11-21T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=19370"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:45:58","slug":"12-people-who-mastered-the-art-of-keeping-their-true-motives-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=19370","title":{"rendered":"12 People Who Mastered the Art of Keeping Their True Motives Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People aren\u2019t always what they seem. Some hide their true intentions behind a smile, a kind word, or an everyday gesture. These 12 stories showcase individuals who mastered the art of keeping their real motives hidden, proving that appearances can be deceiving, and that human behavior is far more complex than it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, my MIL insisted on watching our baby every day while I worked from home. She said she \u201cmissed having little ones around,\u201d and I thought she just wanted to help and was just enjoying her free time. I said, \u201cThank you for your devoted care,\u201d and she smiled.<br>One night, I saw my husband transfer money to her account. I asked why. I lost it when he said, \u201cYou told me to.\u201d Apparently, she\u2019d been telling him I\u2019d agreed to pay her for babysitting so she could \u201cquit her stressful job.\u201d<br>I checked her texts: she\u2019d guilt-tripped him for weeks, calling me \u201cungrateful\u201d behind my back. When I confronted her, she cried and said I was ruining the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People aren\u2019t always what they seem. Some hide their true intentions behind a smile, a kind word, or an everyday gesture. These 12 stories showcase individuals who&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":194,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19372,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions\/19372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}