{"id":547,"date":"2015-01-05T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=547"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:46:58","slug":"do-you-remember-the-first-time-you-were-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>do you remember the first time you were called annoying? <br \/>\nhow your breath stopped short in your chest<br \/>\nthe way the light drained from your eyes, though you knew your cheeks were ablaze <br \/>\nthe way your throat tightened as you tried to form an argument that got lost on your tongue.<br \/>\nyour eyes never left the floor that day. <br \/>\nyou were 13.<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re 20 now, and i still see the light fade from your eyes when you talk about your interests for \u201ctoo long,\u201d<br \/>\napologies littering every other sentence,<br \/>\nwords trailing off a cliff you haven\u2019t jumped from in 7 years. <br \/>\ni could listen to you forever, though i know speaking for more than 3 uninterrupted minutes makes you anxious. <br \/>\nall i want you to know is that you deserve to be heard<br \/>\nfor 3 minutes<br \/>\nfor 10 minutes<br \/>\nfor 2 hours <br \/>\nforever.<\/p>\n<p>there will be people who cannot handle your grace, your beauty, your wisdom, your heart;<br \/>\nmostly because they can\u2019t handle their own.<\/p>\n<p>but you will never be<br \/>\nand have never been<br \/>\n\u201ctoo much.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><em>Tyler Ford\u00a0<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/yeollovemebaek.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yeollovemebaek<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>do you remember the first time you were called annoying? how your breath stopped short in your chest the way the light drained from your eyes, though you knew your cheeks were ablaze the way your throat tightened as you tried to form an argument that got lost on your tongue. your eyes never left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}