{"id":16288,"date":"2026-05-09T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16288"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:48:42","slug":"the-pottery-class-that-shattered-my-marriage-seven-months-into-my-pregnancy-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16288","title":{"rendered":"The Pottery Class That Shattered My Marriage Seven Months Into My Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"289\">I was seven months pregnant with my second child when I discovered my husband\u2019s secret.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"441\">At a pottery class, another woman casually mentioned that Malcolm, her son\u2019s father, missed her labor because he was babysitting <em data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"426\">Tess<\/em>\u2014my daughter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"527\">The truth hit like a gut punch: my husband had a second family I never knew about.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"693\">By morning, my marriage was shattered. I\u2019m now facing the final weeks of pregnancy as a single mother of two, preparing to rebuild an honest life for my children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I was seven months pregnant with my second child when I discovered my husband\u2019s secret. At a pottery class, another woman casually mentioned that Malcolm, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16288\" title=\"The Pottery Class That Shattered My Marriage Seven Months Into My Pregnancy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16290,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16288\/revisions\/16290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}