{"id":5416,"date":"2026-06-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:37:11","slug":"waiting-like-a-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/waiting-like-a-window\/","title":{"rendered":"waiting like a window"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i leave the light on for something that has never arrived.<br>not out of habit, but out of hope\u2014the kind that lingers in corners, soft and unshaken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i imagine you in fragments. a passing reflection, a voice behind me that isn\u2019t there, the warmth that settles beside me when the night feels too full. i do not know your name, but i know your weight in absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">there is a quiet discipline to waiting. not desperation, not grief\u2014just a steady hum of belief that love exists somewhere with my name written inside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if you ever find me, you will not have to knock. i have been open for you longer than i can remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xx,<br>Alice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i leave the light on for something that has never arrived.<br \/>\nnot out of habit, but out of hope\u2014the kind that lingers in corners, soft and unshaken.<\/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-5416","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\/5416","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=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/6760"}],"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=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}