{"id":1597,"date":"2026-04-20T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:23:59","slug":"the-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"The Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"1114\">A small but lovely surprise: <em data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"926\">The Jaded Jester Society<\/em> has featured <strong data-start=\"940\" data-end=\"958\">\u201cThe Neighbor\u201d<\/strong> in a Contributor Highlight for their inaugural issue. I\u2019m grateful to the editors for giving the story not only a home, but a second moment in the light.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1122\" data-end=\"1209\" data-is-last-node=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1122\" data-end=\"1209\" data-is-last-node=\"\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thejadedjesterssociety\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1207\">See the feature on Instagram \u2192<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neighbor. ICE. Contra Costa Stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}