{"id":1570,"date":"2025-03-31T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:29:20","slug":"years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/poetry\/1570\/","title":{"rendered":"Years later&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I search<br \/>\nfor a telephone number that I am<br \/>\nsure has long been<br \/>\ndeactivated, and<\/p>\n<p>I write to a stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Who was once a friend.<\/p>\n<p>All the time hoping what they say is<br \/>\ntrue<br \/>\nthat<\/p>\n<p>true friendship never really dies and<\/p>\n<p>real friends pick up effortlessly where they<\/p>\n<p>left off<br \/>\nalmost like<br \/>\nnothing had happened in<\/p>\n<p>the days&#8230; or months<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or years since<br \/>\nthe last sentence<br \/>\nPick up like<\/p>\n<p>they had only just paused in the<br \/>\nmiddle<br \/>\nof their conversation to<br \/>\norder a second cup of<br \/>\ncoffee and<\/p>\n<p>my heart sings when<br \/>\nthis stranger lights up my screen<\/p>\n<p>dear, dear forgiving friend<br \/>\nbig smile, bigger heart<\/p>\n<p>life&#8217;s joys and<\/p>\n<p>struggles are still<\/p>\n<p>bountiful and<br \/>\nhow lovely it is to<br \/>\nonce again share them<\/p>\n<p>with you.<br \/>\nWelcome back. Please<\/p>\n<p>stay a while.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Birthday, TB!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I search for a telephone number that I am sure has long been deactivated, and I write to a stranger. Who was once a friend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,75],"tags":[236,62],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-connection","tag-friendship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yetunde-siemers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}