{"id":64592,"date":"2025-06-14T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=64592"},"modified":"2025-06-14T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T21:00:11","slug":"the-power-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=64592","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64593\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-29-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-29-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Capture-29.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say we sometimes lie to protect ourselves\u2014but not all lies shield; some destroy. I learned that the night we buried our high school time capsule.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I was dating Brian\u2014my first love. We were young and full of dreams, and I thought we\u2019d last forever.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-13\"><\/div>\n<p>My best friend, Jess, was by my side\u2014or so I believed.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>But that night, Brian grew distant.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Without explanation, he walked away from me, blaming me for ruining everything.<\/p>\n<p>I was devastated and confused. Jess was there to comfort me\u2026 but deep down, something never felt quite right.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years went by. Then an email from Malcolm, a former classmate, reminded me it was time to dig up the capsule. Despite everything, I went back.Being on that schoolyard brought back a flood of memories. Jess and Brian showed up late\u2014together. I assumed they were still a couple, and it hurt more than I wanted to admit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=64566\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; They say we sometimes lie to protect ourselves\u2014but not all lies shield; some destroy. I learned that the night we buried our high school time capsule&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64594,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64592\/revisions\/64594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}