{"id":1119,"date":"2016-02-29T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/2014-2015\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T14:34:37","slug":"condolences-by-nashae-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/condolences-by-nashae-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Condolences by Nashae Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear black hole of insincere kindness,<br \/>\nToday, I am the oldest I have ever been and I decided to let you know that I have made it,<br \/>\nI have made it through all the bull and bottled up emotions that you made me feel,<br \/>\nI remember those months where I felt completely hopeless,<br \/>\nI believed that nothing would get better between us and that those dark thoughts of you would linger on my memory forever, but today,<br \/>\nthey barely cling to my brain cells,<br \/>\nDear mama,<br \/>\nA poem acknowledging my gratitude towards your existence that consist of millions of words and beautiful metaphors is not enough to<br \/>\nexpress how I truly feel about you,<br \/>\nI\u2019m glad that you didn\u2019t teach me about love and relationships because you knew the pain that you felt after your first break up with my<br \/>\nfather,<br \/>\nIt made earthquakes in your heart, shattered your rib cage, and sent tremors down your spine,<br \/>\nI guess I know how you felt now because my body is still recovering,<br \/>\nDear sister,<br \/>\nI hope one day you dabble in the wonders of love,<br \/>\nI hope you experience your fair share of heartbreaks and lust aches,<br \/>\nI hope one day you are clutching your mouth hiding the brightest smile because the one you love proposed and promised the rest of their life with you,<br \/>\nI encourage you to be open,<br \/>\nAnd just because one person broke your heart doesn\u2019t mean that you should stop loving forever,<br \/>\nDear brother,<br \/>\nI believe in you,<br \/>\nI believe that you will treat every woman in your life right even though a father figure to teach you chivalry was absent,<br \/>\nI believe that you have the charm and ability to sweep some lovely young woman off of her feet and treat her as fi she was royalty,<br \/>\nDear me,<br \/>\nYou have regained hope since he\u2019s left,<br \/>\nYou have reorganized your mind and your thoughts don\u2019t seem to consist of him anymore,<br \/>\nI want you to take this heartbreak and turn it into a learning experience and prepare yourself for men in the future who decide to leave your life,<br \/>\nI want you to always remember to love yourself first before you can fully love anyone else,<br \/>\nBecause in the end, all you have is you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear black hole of insincere kindness, Today, I am the oldest I have ever been and I decided to let<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/condolences-by-nashae-bates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Condolences by Nashae Bates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/labyrinth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}