Dear Life,<\/p>\n
You have a way of pretending to be so good and pretty and perfect on magazines and social media, but you\u2019re a bit of a bitch, really, aren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
Yes, there will be days, weeks, months, years, when your acidity gets to me and I feel so weak, I could faint, when I swallow tears while forcing a smile on my face, or breathe so deep through my belly, I could puke, but I will still enjoy my first coffee on the balcony listening to the birds at dawn, and love to pet and feed the stray cats following me home in the evening.<\/p>\n
You can throw pain and heartbreak at me all you want, but I will still notice the majestic owl flying overhead, the flower considered weed blooming through man-made concrete, the full moon and the falling stars shining through pollution.<\/p>\n
I know you end in death, I\u2019ve seen it too many times to ignore reality, but although I call a kitten my granddaughter, I\u2019m planning on meeting my actual grandchildren, and I have a book to edit and publish, and I have travels planned with my love of twenty-nine years, and when I make a plan, I follow through.<\/p>\n
Keep your fucking lemons and go make your own fucking lemonade if you like it so much. I\u2019d rather have a beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep your fucking lemons and go make your own fucking lemonade if you like it so much. I\u2019d rather have a beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":22406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3529],"tags":[4114],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flash-nonfiction","tag-x-facebook-delgeo14-bluesky-delgeo14-bsky-social","writer-delphine-gauthier-georgakopoulos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22409,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions\/22409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}