{"id":26369,"date":"2025-12-23T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26369"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:27:43","slug":"the-day-i-finally-saw-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26369","title":{"rendered":"The day I finally saw my mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a call from my mom, asking me to pick up my brother from school. Her voice was tired. I drove there, found him waiting outside and brought him home. As soon as we went inside she said, \u201cI need to lie down for a bit. Just watch your brother for a while.\u201dshe looked pale. Not sick-sick, but that kind of drained look people get when life\u2019s been leaning too heavy on them. I nodded and said, \u201cOf course,\u201d even though I had plans to meet my friends later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My little brother, Arman, was only 9. Bright kid. Too observant sometimes. He sat on the couch flipping through some superhero comic. I made us both a sandwich and we ended up watching old cartoons like we used to.A couple of hours passed. Mom hadn\u2019t come out of her room. I knocked gently, then cracked the door open. She was asleep. Or at least, I thought so. Her breathing was soft, almost too soft. I stood there watching her for a minute, something uneasy curling in my stomach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a call from my mom, asking me to pick up my brother from school. Her voice was tired. I drove there, found him waiting outside&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":469,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369","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=26369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26371,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26369\/revisions\/26371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}