{"id":354,"date":"2025-11-24T22:41:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/?p=354"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:41:47","slug":"distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When lives bond<br \/>And hearts connect<br \/>The sinew of love <br \/>Lashes souls together<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When circumstance and necessity<br \/>Creates distance<br \/>The links are stretched<br \/>And the heart bears the burden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When loneliness returns us<br \/>To the place we desperately escaped<br \/>We long to be reunited<br \/>And cherish the touch, the kiss, the completeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I call to you from the abyss.<br \/>\u201cReturn to me\u201d<br \/>As I seek your gentle caress<br \/>And the peace and harmony of your everlasting presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When lives bondAnd hearts connectThe sinew of love Lashes souls together When circumstance and necessityCreates distanceThe links are stretchedAnd the heart bears the burden When loneliness returns usTo the place we desperately escapedWe long to be reunitedAnd cherish the touch, the kiss, the completeness. I call to you from the abyss.\u201cReturn to me\u201dAs I seek &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/?p=354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,10,9,13,12],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-gentle_caress","tag-heart_connection","tag-love_bonding","tag-peace_harmony","tag-reunion_desire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_1270.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parallellives.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}