{"id":8992,"date":"2026-02-14T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:35:12","slug":"when-i-walked-in-holding-my-newborn-my-9-year-old-daughter-suddenly-turned-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"When I walked in holding my newborn, my 9-year-old daughter suddenly turned pale\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"154\">The moment I walked in holding my newborn, my 9-year-old daughter went pale.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"156\" data-end=\"221\">She burst into tears and screamed, \u201cMom, throw that baby away!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"291\">Her hands shook as she whispered, \u201cBecause\u2026 that isn\u2019t your baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"369\">I froze. My knees went weak. Her real father had been dead for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The moment I walked in holding my newborn, my 9-year-old daughter went pale. She burst into tears and screamed, \u201cMom, throw that baby away!\u201d Her <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=8992\" title=\"When I walked in holding my newborn, my 9-year-old daughter suddenly turned pale\u2026\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8992","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\/8992","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=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}