{"id":92,"date":"2014-07-20T20:48:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T20:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-tyrannosaurus-rex\/"},"modified":"2014-07-20T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T20:48:28","slug":"dear-tyrannosaurus-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-tyrannosaurus-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to begin by saying I&#8217;m sorry about your arms. It must&#8217;ve been hard to assert yourself and be taken seriously with such comically short arms on such an imposing scaly figure. But Tyrannosaurus, I&#8217;ve got to be honest with you. I&#8217;m glad you died 65 million years ago because my mom is deathly afraid of lizards and probably never would have set foot outside her house if you&#8217;d been around. And if that had happened, I wouldn&#8217;t be here to write you this letter&#8230;. so thank you, indirectly I guess, for dying so that I could live.<br \/>\nI still think it&#8217;s awesome that I drink the same water you drank, and breathe the same air that you breathed. It&#8217;s truly an honor. You&#8217;re one of the most badass creatures ever to have existed, and quite frankly Tyrannosaurus, I wish I could be more like you. I wish I could wake up in the mornings and know that the scariest thing I&#8217;d see all day was my own reflection. I wish there weren&#8217;t societal pressures like drugs and alcohol and other bad influences surrounding myself and my peers. I wish it wasn&#8217;t important to follow fashion and know about ever sport team and the score of every game. I wish the only thing I had to worry about was myself.<br \/>\nThank you, Tyrannosaurus, for giving my something to strive for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to begin by saying I&#8217;m sorry about your arms. It must&#8217;ve been hard to assert yourself and be taken seriously with such comically short arms on such an imposing scaly figure. But Tyrannosaurus, I&#8217;ve got to be honest with you. I&#8217;m glad you died 65 million years ago because my mom is deathly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-letters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}