{"id":677,"date":"2016-05-08T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T23:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-first-love\/"},"modified":"2016-05-08T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T23:35:34","slug":"dear-first-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-first-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear first love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You were the first time I experienced love at first sight.  I learned you had a boyfriend just moments after first speaking to you, which was just another reason you may not ever love me considering we are of the same gender and I still lived in a closet. I&#8217;m not sure I why I was instantly attracted to you, but it became infatuation. I was fascinated by you like I could never learn too much or became bored of you. I slowly friend zoned myself just in my efforts to get close to you. I realized not only did I hate your boyfriend because I wanted you and he had you, but also because he mistreated you and I couldn&#8217;t help but be confused and engulfed in anger at the fact that he had something I could only wish for and he didn&#8217;t even care enough to appreciate it. Slowly we became closer and I became your secret. Behind closed doors, it was as if I was your world. You knew it was wrong to be cheating on him, but you constantly tried to justify it because I was &#8220;just a girl.&#8221; I remember when you broke up, my small flicker of hope became a full, blazing fire. I was convinced it was my time, like you would just flock to me with nothing to hold you back. I was wrong, I spent more months as your secret, but it felt even harder with you being single because I just sat back and witnessed all the attention you would receive from different boys. I felt so disrespected. Like they were disrespecting my relationship right in front of my face, but I couldn&#8217;t be mad. I couldn&#8217;t confront them, I couldn&#8217;t blame them, I had no power  or right to because they didn&#8217;t even know about this so called relationship. It sounds pathetic the way I waited for you and endured this hurt, but I continued to do it because of how in love I felt. I convinced myself you were worth. And let me tell you, you were worth it. When I stood up for myself, when you finally realized I was right for you, I spent the best three years of my life with you. We may no longer be together, but I&#8217;ll always love you. And I thank you, because I loved you so much I was able to step out of the closet. I didn&#8217;t care of others peoples opinions because I was comfortable with myself when I was with you. Although the that year and half as your secret was the most suffering I&#8217;ve experienced so far, I&#8217;d do it again to experience the excitement of you and my first time in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were the first time I experienced love at first sight. I learned you had a boyfriend just moments after first speaking to you, which was just another reason you may not ever love me considering we are of the same gender and I still lived in a closet. I&#8217;m not sure I why I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-letters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}