{"id":56352,"date":"2025-03-22T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56352"},"modified":"2025-03-22T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:52:52","slug":"my-ex-wife-dem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56352","title":{"rendered":"My Ex-wife Dem&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1014.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1014.png 992w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1014-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1014-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I sat on Peter&#8217;s bed, surrounded by his things\u2014books, medals, a half-finished sketch. He loved to draw when he wasn\u2019t buried in books or solving problems beyond me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You were too smart for me, kid,&#8221; I muttered, picking up a framed photo. His crooked grin stared back at me. Yale had accepted him, but he never got to go. A drunk driver made sure of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A knock at the door. Susan. &#8220;We need to talk about Peter\u2019s fund,&#8221; she had said earlier. Now, here she was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I let her in. &#8220;Make it quick.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She sat, all business. &#8220;Ryan could really use that money.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I scoffed. &#8220;That was Peter\u2019s future, not your stepson\u2019s.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the caf\u00e9 the next morning, Susan and Jerry made their case. &#8220;It\u2019s just sitting there,&#8221; Jerry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I leaned forward. &#8220;You let Peter eat cereal while you had steak. You don\u2019t deserve a cent.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back home, I sat in Peter\u2019s room, staring at his map. Belgium was circled in red. His dreams weren\u2019t theirs to take<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=56273\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat on Peter&#8217;s bed, surrounded by his things\u2014books, medals, a half-finished sketch. He loved to draw when he wasn\u2019t buried in books or solving problems beyond&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56357,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56352\/revisions\/56357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}