{"id":49245,"date":"2026-05-10T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49245"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:01:39","slug":"i-buried-my-son-10-years-ago-when-i-saw-my-new-neighbors-son-i-could-have-sworn-he-looked-like-mine-would-if-he-were-alive-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=49245","title":{"rendered":"I Buried My Son 10 Years Ago \u2013 When I Saw My New Neighbors&#8217; Son, I Could Have Sworn He Looked like Mine Would If He Were Alive Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I buried my 9-year-old son ten years ago. When new neighbors moved in, I brought over a pie to welcome them. Their teenage son opened the door\u2026 and I nearly collapsed. He had my son\u2019s face! And when I told my husband, he whispered something that changed everything.y son, Daniel, died when he was nine years old.He was playing with a ball near the school gate, and then a car turned too fast off the side street, and that was it. One moment he existed in the world, and the next he didn&#8217;t.The grief of losing a child never goes away. It&#8217;s a wound that scabs and leaves a scar in your heart that you feel forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I saw a young man who looked exactly like my boy, it felt like that wound tore open all over again.For years after Daniel died, I still turned my head when I heard boys laughing down the street.I still expected, for half a second, to hear a ball bouncing in the driveway.I was advised to have more kids. &#8220;It will help ease the pain a little,&#8221; I was told, but I didn&#8217;t have the heart for it.So, Carl and I turned into quiet people in a quiet house, and mostly that was okay.Then the moving truck showed up next doo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buried my 9-year-old son ten years ago. When new neighbors moved in, I brought over a pie to welcome them. Their teenage son opened the door\u2026&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":57,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49247,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245\/revisions\/49247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}