{"id":375,"date":"2025-04-19T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T04:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/?p=375"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T04:50:55","slug":"pieces-by-mala-virk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/2025\/04\/19\/pieces-by-mala-virk\/","title":{"rendered":"PIECES BY: MALA VIRK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought I could fix what was broken.<br \/>\nBe a hand to mend cracks and seams,<br \/>\nBut in my search for healing<br \/>\nI lost myself within the dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">You came to me with fragile trust,<br \/>\nA tender, quiet plea.<br \/>\nI tried to soothe the storm inside,<br \/>\nBut ended up losing me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I held you close, I gave you space;<br \/>\nA balance I could never find.<br \/>\nYou asked for help to heal your heart,<br \/>\nAnd I left pieces of mine behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In trying to save what once was whole,<br \/>\nI learned healing exhausts a heavy toll.<br \/>\nNow here I stand, with love turned blind,<br \/>\nThe one who tried,<br \/>\nYet lost her mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I could fix what was broken. Be a hand to mend cracks and seams, But in my search for healing I lost myself within the dreams. You came <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/2025\/04\/19\/pieces-by-mala-virk\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/the-write-stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}