{"id":5421,"date":"2026-08-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:37:10","slug":"the-first-time-my-heart-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/the-first-time-my-heart-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"the first time my heart opened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it happened quietly, and then all at once.<br>no warning, no careful unfolding\u2014just a sudden shift where everything became you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i didn\u2019t know love could feel like this. sharp and soft at the same time. overwhelming in its innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">every glance felt like a secret. every word you spoke stayed with me longer than it should have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i think first love is less about the person and more about the awakening. the realization that your heart is capable of something vast and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you were the first door. the first light. the first proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and even if time carries us elsewhere, i will always remember who taught my heart how to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">truly yours,<br>Alice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it happened quietly, and then all at once.<br \/>\nno warning, no careful unfolding\u2014just a sudden shift where everything became you.<\/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-5421","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\/5421","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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6758,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/6758"}],"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=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}