{"id":42,"date":"2026-07-13T01:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:16:28","slug":"i-married-a-man-behind-bars-for-money-while-he-was-serving-a-twelve-year-sentence-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"I Married a Man Behind Bars for Money While He Was Serving a Twelve-Year Sentence  P2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Married a Man Behind Bars for Money While He Was Serving a Twelve-Year Sentence \u2014 But After His Case Was Overturned, He Came to My Apartment With a Black Box and Said, \u201cNow It\u2019s My Turn to Be Honest.\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>When I agreed to marry Jonah, I did not even know whether he was innocent.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>He had been found responsible for taking money from his family\u2019s charity.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I was twenty-seven, buried under rent notices and raising my younger brother on my own.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>So when Jonah\u2019s mother offered me $2,000 a month to become his wife on paper, I said yes before shame could catch up with me.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cVisit twice a month,\u201d she said. \u201cWrite letters. Make the court see he still has family.\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Our wedding happened behind scratched glass, with a guard watching the clock.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I expected Jonah to be angry.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Cold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=44\">NIXT&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Married a Man Behind Bars for Money While He Was Serving a Twelve-Year Sentence \u2014 But After His Case&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}