{
  "id": 850755,
  "title": "When you’re ghosting and it’s not even Halloween",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/when-youre-ghosting-and-its-not-even-halloween",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T07:49:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/saturday-star/opinion/2026-08-14-when-youre-ghosting-and-its-not-even-halloween/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I don’t know if there’s ever actually an excuse to lead people on, lie, disappear without a trace, bench or orbit someone. These are real life words and they’re real life because these things are actually happening to people.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}