{"id":1076,"date":"2008-02-01T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1076"},"modified":"2008-03-21T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T23:18:08","slug":"a-letter-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1076","title":{"rendered":"a letter to the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes I wish you could see me<br \/>\nmy subtle moments, my tired eyes, my smiles and my gestures.<br \/>\nmy million ways of laughing and the way I wash dishes,<br \/>\nthe way I stare up at the stars and off into the distance,<br \/>\nor how I get totally immersed in a book or chopping vegetables.<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t know how I act when I am taking charge of a room,<br \/>\nhow my tone of voice changes when I call home,<br \/>\nhow my mother and I spent evenings in front of the fireplace<br \/>\nwith chocolate and tea and laughter.<br \/>\ndo you know that I love cobblestone streets, grand old homes,<br \/>\nand perfect climbing trees?<br \/>\nor that my little sister means everything to me,<br \/>\nand my Faith encompasses my life?<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I wish you could see me dancing, I am joyful,<br \/>\nthe whole room disappears and I am complete.<br \/>\nmy fascination with little details and museums,<br \/>\nmy love of road trips and forests and conversations over coffee.<br \/>\nI still love to play dress-up&#8230;just a more grown-up version&#8230;<br \/>\ndid you know that my kitchen is my sanctuary?<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I wish that you could know me, that you continue trying,<br \/>\nand that the things that I want you to know about me&#8230;<br \/>\nsomeday I will know about you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes I wish you could see me my subtle moments, my tired eyes, my smiles and my gestures. my million ways of laughing and the way I wash dishes, the way I stare up at the stars and off into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-poetry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}