I am Margaret Collins, sixty-two years old. Last night my son, Daniel, str:uck me. He had shouted before\u2014many times\u2014yet this was the first time his hand connected hard enough to leave a metallic taste in my mouth. I didn\u2019t call anyone. I didn\u2019t cry out. I braced myself against the kitchen counter as he stormed out, slamming the door with the petulance of a teenager rather than a thirty-four-year-old man.<\/p>\n
This morning, I rose before sunrise, as I always do. My cheek was swollen, but I covered it carefully with makeup and fastened my pearl earrings. I spread the lace tablecloth my mother gave me when I married and prepared a full Southern breakfast\u2014biscuits, sausage gravy, buttered grits, scrambled eggs, and bacon cooked just right. I brought out the china we reserve for Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am Margaret Collins, sixty-two years old. Last night my son, Daniel, str:uck me. He had shouted before\u2014many times\u2014yet this was the first time his hand connected hard enough to leave a metallic taste in my mouth. I didn\u2019t call anyone. I didn\u2019t cry out. I braced myself against the kitchen counter as he stormed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factznews.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}