{"id":277,"date":"2008-06-02T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T06:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2008-06-02T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T06:42:45","slug":"a-memouir-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"A memouir, I."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/javier_vallhonrat_uk_vogue_june_-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278\" title=\"javier_vallhonrat_uk_vogue_june_-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/javier_vallhonrat_uk_vogue_june_-4-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/javier_vallhonrat_uk_vogue_june_-4-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/javier_vallhonrat_uk_vogue_june_-4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will let you know, how I&#8217;ve placed all your worth, all those words of yours, that truly hurt. I chose to shelter your emptiness in a small brown cardboard box. I put a permanent marker, danced it to the smooth surface, and I pitied myself as I drew your name with a heart in love. I want that to die soon, and you&#8217;ve done well to see to that. I&#8217;ve labeled this box fragile capitalized, must handle with ease and caution. Think of it as this, that&#8217;s one less of a reason, to why I&#8217;m broken.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to know what&#8217;s special? This box harbors all of a past, that never was. It wasn&#8217;t written and it couldn&#8217;t be possible. You don&#8217;t exist. At least, you failed too. Just know, that as I closed this box, and placed the memories captive, I chained my heart. I too am held captive, to your words, that never made sense, and I&#8217;m smiling. At least I&#8217;ll honestly tell you, its a fake smile, insincere. I&#8217;ll lighten you with something wonderful, I&#8217;m living now in a cruel reality and your words will always rest to remain just words.<\/p>\n<p>As it was.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep ending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will let you know, how I&#8217;ve placed all your worth, all those words of yours, that truly hurt. I chose to shelter your emptiness in a small brown cardboard box. I put a permanent marker, danced it to the smooth surface, and I pitied myself as I drew your name with a heart in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}