{"id":149073,"date":"2026-08-25T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/25\/opinion-life-was-normal-and-then-it-wasnt-the-mercury-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:45:01","slug":"opinion-life-was-normal-and-then-it-wasnt-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/25\/opinion-life-was-normal-and-then-it-wasnt-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Life was normal. And then it wasn\u2019t. &#8211; The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxNbDhZVkVhcTdhdlpVcDhxd2p1Y3FSLTAyamZDU2VzN1RxeTZpWmhqcnVJX1ZTMWRPWGd2enRpbkdlWDh0YTFWVXByUG5BenNsUWwyZHFGWENMcXpqXzVrbUNfNVBiUEhDSFhSa1B2ek5QNGt0VVo4Mnk3NkF3YklEUWtQN0VGWkJt0gGOAUFVX3lxTE1kSGJFellnYWhvY3dUbmJNZ094eDBTQUZtVjlVZHlWRGJ6YVJ3ZHFxLXhqaWZwM000ZXBYeF9fLWRRajJ6UzAtSEpObTFhQ0VteGhkLUUwVmNJM1lfSklfREVxODRlWXk4cUVEQ1RLdkFfNk5xcFMyOHRwRzRWNjZESVBZOEo2TWdFMDdON3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: Life was normal. And then it wasn\u2019t.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Mercury News<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: Life was normal. And then it wasn\u2019t.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Mercury News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}