{"id":158365,"date":"2022-05-03T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/32883042"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:08:20","slug":"32883042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/32883042","title":{"rendered":"I was horrified when my pen pal escaped from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission.Photo by Ron Lach\/PexelsI got my first pen pal in elementary school as part of a school project. All the kids in the classroom received the name of a child from another elementary school, and we spent the class writing a letter about our families, pets, and hobbies for our teacher to send off to our new friends.We felt excited when we received letters in return several days later.Our pen-pal exchange didn&#8217;t last long. Perhaps the teachers grew tired of facilitating our letter writing or delivery, but the experience stayed with me.I procured my next pen pal on my own, several of them, in fact.In high school, I found a pen pal of my own, several of them. I wrote to the names and addresses I received by sending a dollar bill inside a self-addressed stamped envelope to a P.O. Box listed in the back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission. I got my first pen pal in elementary school as part of a school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}