{"id":5418,"date":"2026-07-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:37:11","slug":"the-shape-of-you-before-you-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/the-shape-of-you-before-you-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"the shape of you before you arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i loved you before i understood what love meant.<br>before language caught up to feeling, before time gave it edges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you were a presence i couldn\u2019t explain. a softness in the air. a pull in my chest when nothing was there to hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when i finally met you, it felt less like discovery and more like recognition. like stepping into a memory i had been rehearsing my whole life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">isn\u2019t it strange? how the heart can prepare for someone it has never seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i think i\u2019ve always been yours. i was just waiting for you to arrive and confirm it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xoxo,<br>Alice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i loved you before i understood what love meant.<br \/>\nbefore language caught up to feeling, before time gave it edges.<\/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-5418","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\/5418","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=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6759,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/6759"}],"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=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}