{"id":25228,"date":"2025-12-18T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25228"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:31:59","slug":"my-aunt-fought-for-custody-of-my-brother-but-i-knew-her-true-motives-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=25228","title":{"rendered":"My Aunt Fought for Custody of My Brother \u2014 But I Knew Her True Motives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The day after I buried my parents, I became an adult. Not because I turned eighteen, but because someone tried to take the only family I had left. And I wasn&#8217;t about to let that happen.As an 18-year-old boy, I never imagined I&#8217;d be facing the hardest chapter of my life \u2014 burying both of my parents and being left with my six-year-old brother, Max, who still thought Mommy was just on a long trip.To make matters worse, the day of the funeral was my birthday.3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People said &#8220;Happy 18th&#8221; like it meant something.It didn&#8217;t.I didn&#8217;t want cake. I didn&#8217;t want gifts. I just wanted Max to stop asking, &#8220;When&#8217;s Mommy coming back?&#8221;We were still in our black clothes when I knelt at the grave and whispered a promise to him: &#8220;I won\u2019t let anyone take you. Ever.&#8221;But I guess not everyone agreed with that plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after I buried my parents, I became an adult. Not because I turned eighteen, but because someone tried to take the only family I had&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":278,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228","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=25228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25230,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228\/revisions\/25230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}