{"id":6951,"date":"2011-01-27T22:13:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2011-01-27T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:13:13","slug":"6951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=6951","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has until he turns 30. That&#8217;s why, May.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m sad. It&#8217;s in another person&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>And what if what&#8217;s mine, is this secret love that I can never have, can never talk about.<\/p>\n<p>One where everyone knows, but no one talks about it.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the trajectory I lived, I have to accept what&#8217;s mine.<\/p>\n<p>I assumed it would be a partner.<\/p>\n<p>But what if it&#8217;s the love that is mine? What if in it&#8217;s purest, most honest form, that&#8217;s what it is,<\/p>\n<p>and that&#8217;s just the situation?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I completely understand why. He has a history with her. He has a life with her. He has an entire network, an entire world. It&#8217;s not just two people.<\/p>\n<p>And with me, he has love.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s mutually exclusive to his love for her.<\/p>\n<p>What then? What do I believe. That the right thing to do is face the reality of truth. And make art from it. Or decide I won&#8217;t accept it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has until he turns 30. That&#8217;s why, May. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m sad. It&#8217;s in another person&#8217;s hands. And what if what&#8217;s mine, is this secret love that I can never have, can never talk about. One where everyone knows, but no one talks about it. Because of the trajectory I lived, I have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-6951","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}