{"id":2472,"date":"2025-07-11T05:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:29:50","slug":"hits-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/11\/hits-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hits hard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day, we won\u2019t be at each other\u2019s funerals.<br>Because one of us has to go first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I try not to think about that too often\u2026<br>But sometimes it hits me out of nowhere,<br>That one day, one of us will be the one left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left to sleep in a bed that feels too big.<br>Left to hear our favorite song and crumble.<br>Left to carry the weight of a love story that didn\u2019t get to finish on our terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve built a whole life together.<br>A family.<br>A home.<br>A thousand ordinary moments that feel sacred now.<br>And one day\u2026 it\u2019ll just be memories for one of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the cruel part about forever with someone.<br>Eventually, one of you has to learn how to live without the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So tonight, I\u2019ll hold you a little longer.<br>I\u2019ll soak in your voice, your laugh, your heartbeat.<br>Because I don\u2019t know how many more nights I\u2019ll get.<br>But I know this one is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I\u2019ll never take it for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love you Lisa, FOREVER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, we won\u2019t be at each other\u2019s funerals.Because one of us has to go first. And I try not to think about that too often\u2026But sometimes it hits me out of nowhere,That one day, one of us will be the one left behind. Left to sleep in a bed that feels too big.Left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}