{"id":5416,"date":"2026-06-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:16:47","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":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\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":"i leave the light on for something that has never arrived.\nnot out of habit, but out of hope\u2014the kind that lingers in corners, soft and unshaken.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"disabled","csco_page_header_type":"title","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-5416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alices-love-letters","tag-alices-love-letters","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/alce-in-thousandpetaled-alices-love-letters-01-2560x1707-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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":1,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions\/5417"}],"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}]}}