{"id":13171,"date":"2026-10-22T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/?p=13171"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T22:47:31","slug":"i-thought-our-new-neighbor-was-just-being-friendly-with-my-husband-until-i-saw-his-reaction-to-a-note-she-handed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/?p=13171","title":{"rendered":"I Thought Our New Neighbor Was Just Being Friendly With My Husband Until I Saw His Reaction to a Note She Handed Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The note was written in purple ink on a page torn from a spiral notebook, and by the time I reached Dakota\u2019s front steps I had crushed it into a ball in my fist.I could hear Tony behind me in the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJennifer! Jen, wait. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t wait. I didn\u2019t look back. I walked up her three concrete steps, past the pot of yellow mums she\u2019d set out the week she moved in, and I stood in front of her red door with my heart pounding so hard I could feel it in my ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/88-69.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13172\" style=\"width:20px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The note was written in purple ink on a page torn from a spiral notebook, and by the time I reached Dakota\u2019s front steps I had crushed&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13173,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13171\/revisions\/13173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damaalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}