{"id":2099,"date":"2021-04-14T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2021-04-14T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:16:45","slug":"memory-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/memory-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/memorybox-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/memorybox-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/memorybox-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/memorybox-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/memorybox-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/memorybox-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found years worth of memories in an old shoebox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old school notes from friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a diary that once locked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you like Peter?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAre you my best friend?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just who was this \u201cWally\u201d that I spoke of back then??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calendars with memories marked in each box<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teen milestones of date nights I\u2019d almost forgot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stumbled on stories that just made me laugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And some others that I\u2019d rather be left in the past<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was always the crushes that made my diary pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they just disappear until the next one emerges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feuds with girlfriends were always worse than with guys<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As each one of us tried on different disguises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon life&#8217;s grown-up headaches worked its way on my pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidents that set off a litany of writing rages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A book for each year with some gaps here and there<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I\u2019m still writing\u2026who will read them?&nbsp; Do I even care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent days reading thru memories of years gone past<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And wonder, if I don\u2019t keep them, will these memories still last?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, half of my life is stuffed in that box<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secrets not kept since the diary won\u2019t lock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found years worth of memories in an old shoebox Old school notes from friends And a diary that once locked \u201cDo you like Peter?\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveyoustrong.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}