{"id":4607,"date":"2025-07-15T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2025-07-15T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T21:07:04","slug":"mom-i-want-to-go-back-how-i-lost-my-home-for-a-room-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMom, I want to go back\u201d: How I lost my home for a room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was evicted\u2014his daughter\u2019s betrayal left him homeless at 72. After decades alone, V\u00edctor Manuel found himself forced out of the family apartment so his daughter and grandchildren could move in\u2014and it came at the cost of his beloved dog, Canelo.<\/p>\n<p>In a desperate move, his daughter Marisol had rented him a spot in a run\u2011down nursing home in Toledo\u2014cold, moldy, and lonely. But there he discovered Carmen, a kindred spirit in suffering, and an old neighbor confirmed his worst fear: Canelo had been thrown out on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbroken, V\u00edctor pleaded, \u201cSon\u2026 I want to go home.\u201d A compassionate lawyer stepped in. They proved Marisol\u2019s eviction was illegal. The court restored his rights, and he sold the apartment\u2014giving Marisol her fair share\u2014and used the rest to buy a small house with a garden.<\/p>\n<p>Within months, V\u00edctor, Canelo, and Carmen moved in together quietly, finally finding the peace and dignity they deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>He was evicted\u2014his daughter\u2019s betrayal left him homeless at 72. After decades alone, V\u00edctor Manuel found himself forced out of the family apartment so his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=4607\" title=\"\u201cMom, I want to go back\u201d: How I lost my home for a room\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","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\/4607","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=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}