{"id":306,"date":"2023-01-31T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/31\/closing-day-real-estate-stories\/"},"modified":"2023-01-31T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:00:00","slug":"closing-day-real-estate-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/31\/closing-day-real-estate-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Day Stories. Keys, Tears, and Kitchen Feelings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I showed hundreds of houses and learned the phrase they always said: the kitchen just feels wrong. They were never talking about cabinets. They were talking about divorce, or Sunday mornings, or the mother who cooked and is gone.<\/p>\n<p>My job was part therapist, part spreadsheet, part person who remembers where the fuse box is. Closing day smelled like fresh paint and panic. I kept tissues in my purse and a pen that worked.<\/p>\n<p>I was good at it because I listen. I still listen at my table when friends debate moving, renting, aging in place. I do not advise\u2014I am not licensed anymore. I feed them and let silence do its work.<\/p>\n<p>Homes are hosts too. They hold our meals and our fights and our reunions. Honor that when you choose one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade in real estate taught me that people buy stories, not square footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-chapters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}