{"id":5426,"date":"2026-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:37:10","slug":"yearning-is-a-kind-of-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/yearning-is-a-kind-of-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"yearning is a kind of devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to miss you is to prove that you exist somewhere beyond me.<br>and that thought alone is enough to keep me tethered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">yearning is not empty. it is full\u2014overflowing with everything i would give if distance did not exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i carry you in imagined conversations, in unfinished sentences, in the spaces where your presence should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sometimes i think longing is its own form of love. one that does not need to be fulfilled to be real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">still, i hope for more than this. i hope for a day when missing you is no longer necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only yours,<br>Alice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to miss you is to prove that you exist somewhere beyond me.<br \/>\nand that thought alone is enough to keep me tethered.<\/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-5426","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\/5426","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=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions\/6756"}],"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=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thousandpetaled.com\/alice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}