{"id":589,"date":"2021-08-15T21:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T02:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2023-01-16T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:59:59","slug":"the-farewell-letters-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/the-farewell-letters-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Farewell Letters: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>I Hope This Finds You<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you read this and discover that I still think of you<strong>\u2014<\/strong>all of you<strong>\u2014<\/strong>from the children we once were to the various spirits we&#8217;ve become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ll see my sincere apology or a memory we&#8217;ve held together; maybe there&#8217;s a scar buried there or a broken story that we still bear. Nonetheless, you\u2019ll see that we are still filled with an abundance of blooming potential<strong>\u2014<\/strong>a potential that we have always held inside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, I hope this finds you<strong>\u2014<\/strong>all of you<strong>\u2014<\/strong>that I still remember. Maybe you remember me too. Maybe I was a prize to you, or I was an embarrassment to you. Maybe I wasn&#8217;t even anything to you, but maybe I was everything for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So anyways, I hope this finds you and I hope this speaks to you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201ccollection of letters\u201d is a four part series of prose poetry that addresses both my reflections on the past and my hopes for the future. In this introduction, I am greeting my reader&#8211;who could be anyone&#8211;and to whom the letter is addressed.  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/15\/the-farewell-letters-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Farewell Letters: Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,80],"tags":[85,83,82,84,81,12],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-the-farewell-letters","tag-i-hope-this-finds-you","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-prose","tag-the-farewell-letters","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lanafreitas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}