{"id":381,"date":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/?p=381"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:50:46","slug":"stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/CFBAFFD8-96A5-4E57-81EC-290105A8267E-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across this sign one afternoon when I was walking home with a friend. &#8220;Cool, free stuff&#8221;, we thought, as we walked over to see what cool trinkets we could find. Everything there was covered in a fair amount of dust, and seemed to be from ages ago. A bit disappointed, I started to walk away, but then I saw that the &#8220;Free Items All&#8221; sign had some writing on the back as well. This large wooden sign had once been a congratulatory sign, celebrating the previous home-owner&#8217;s 100th birthday. When I realized that, I felt a strange connection and sadness for this woman whom I had never met before, realizing that all of these items, from the crochet mouse to the photography magazine, had all been hers before she passed away. What started as a fun detour had led to a connection to a stranger that I had never met before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this sign one afternoon when I was walking home with a friend. &#8220;Cool, free stuff&#8221;, we thought, as we walked over to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-telling-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ValorieS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}