{"id":5418,"date":"2026-07-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:48:57","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":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\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":"i loved you before i understood what love meant.\nbefore language caught up to feeling, before time gave it edges.","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-5418","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\/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":2,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5420"}],"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}]}}