{"id":5421,"date":"2026-08-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:35:42","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":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\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":"it happened quietly, and then all at once.\nno warning, no careful unfolding\u2014just a sudden shift where everything became you.","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-5421","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\/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":2,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5423"}],"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}]}}