{"id":33468,"date":"2012-09-30T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T07:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/30\/letter-2\/"},"modified":"2012-09-30T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T07:35:53","slug":"letter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/30\/letter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony,<\/p>\n<p>I know you find it hard to talk about emotions, so I&#8217;m writing you a letter. You can just &#8230; ignore it or respond however you like.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not trying to manipulate you or anything like that. I know I said some things that really hurt you, actually, and I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m beyond sorry. I &#8230; if you want me to go away, I will.<\/p>\n<p>I love you. I know that kind of scares you. I don&#8217;t expect you to return it. But when &#8212; they &#8212; had me, that was all I had to hold on to. The people I love. I don&#8217;t know what they drugged me with, but I couldn&#8217;t reach out. Every sense felt like it was wrapped in cotton.<\/p>\n<p>And you came, and saved me when I couldn&#8217;t save myself.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you. I &#8230; this is all incoherent, because I&#8217;ve literally been trying to think what to say for weeks now. I don&#8217;t even know what you want me to say. What you might need to hear from me.<\/p>\n<p>Just try to tell me, and I will say it.<\/p>\n<p>With love, Summer<\/p>\n<p>[<em>the letter is sealed with red wax marked with a feline pawprint, still warm, and smells faintly of fire<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony, I know you find it hard to talk about emotions, so I&#8217;m writing you a letter. You can just &#8230; ignore it or respond however you like. I&#8217;m not trying to manipulate you or anything like that. I know I said some things that really hurt you, actually, and I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m beyond sorry. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/30\/letter-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter #2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}