{"id":198,"date":"2025-01-04T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2025-01-04T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T11:35:35","slug":"the-chilling-story-behind-an-unexpected-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"The Chilling Story Behind an Unexpected Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, on Christmas eve 2001, I was in tears: I couldn\u2019t afford a gift for my 8 y.o. boy. That night, the doorbell rang, and there was a box wrapped in newspaper. It had a new Walkman inside. We had no idea who brought it, but I kept the paper as a memory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"2VIkpHS2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1696557\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>15 years later, while moving, I found it again. I felt sick, an eerie chill ran through me when I read the news on it: it was about my neighborhood. The article, dated 1990, reported on a suspected man in his 40s who had been breaking into houses on our street and stealing from them. I had no idea about this, as I wasn\u2019t living there back then.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p>Luckily, nothing bad happened. It could\u2019ve been just a coincidence to wrap it in that news, but still, it\u2019s a chilling one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, on Christmas eve 2001, I was in tears: I couldn\u2019t afford a gift for my 8 y.o. boy. That night, the doorbell rang, and there was a box wrapped in newspaper. It had a new Walkman inside. We had no idea who brought it, but I kept the paper as a memory. 15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews06.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}