{"id":4012,"date":"2026-01-01T12:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:37:12","slug":"a-letter-i-didnt-send","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/a-letter-i-didnt-send\/","title":{"rendered":"a letter i didn&#8217;t send"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are things I no longer touch,<br>not because they were evil,<br>but because they asked too much of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I learned that devotion is not loud.<br>It is a daily returning.<br>It is choosing to stay when leaving would be easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not interested in escape.<br>I want to feel the texture of my days.<br>I want to notice when my breath changes,<br>when my hands steady,<br>when my joy arrives without asking permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some nights I miss the blur.<br>Most days I am grateful for the sharpness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are here, reading this slowly,<br>you already understand what it means<br>to guard something tender inside yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If something here helps you breathe, keep it.<br>If you are here, you were meant to be addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Alice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are things I no longer touch, not because they were evil, but because they asked too much of me. I learned that devotion is not loud. It is a daily returning. It is choosing to stay when leaving would be easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alices-love-letters","tag-alices-love-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6763,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/6763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}