{"id":11870,"date":"2026-01-04T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=11870"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:56:24","slug":"sarah-palin-was-crushed-after-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=11870","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin was crushed after her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene in 2008 as John McCain\u2019s running mate, a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cforce of nature\u201d whose folksy confidence made her impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raised in Alaska, she called basketball \u201clife-changing\u201d and married high-school<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sweetheart Todd Palin in 1988, eloping with two courthouse witnesses because they \u201ccouldn\u2019t afford a wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They raised five children as Palin rose from local politics to become Alaska\u2019s youngest and first female governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind the image of a strong marriage, strain grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Palin learned by email that Todd was filing for divorce\u2014news she said felt like being \u201cshot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The split was finalized in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, Palin has rebuilt her life, finding comfort in a relationship she<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>describes as \u201csafe and comfortable,\u201d while continuing to re-enter politics and press forward despite very public heartbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositive24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shutterstock_49682815-768x511-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40015\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositive24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-98849570.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40016\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene in 2008 as John McCain\u2019s running mate, a \u201cforce of nature\u201d whose folksy confidence made her impossible to ignore. Raised in Alaska, she called basketball \u201clife-changing\u201d and married high-school sweetheart Todd Palin in 1988, eloping with two courthouse witnesses because they \u201ccouldn\u2019t afford a wedding.\u201d They raised five&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}