{"id":4698,"date":"2026-05-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:28:16","slug":"happy-anniversary-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4698","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May 6 \u2014 a very special day. The entry today is for Claire. It\u2019s personal \u2014 read it if you want\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today would be our anniversary. I just wrote \u201cwould\u201d be, but the truth is you\u2019re still so present in my life it would be wrong to speak of you in past tense. You\u2019re not \u201cgone\u201d \u2014 at least not in the way people think. Maybe physically \u2014 but you\u2019re still in the air I breathe, the memories that never go away and the ache that just won\u2019t leave.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our lives are forever intertwined \u2014 the inside jokes, the memories \u2014so many of you. Of us.<br>Everywhere I look \u2014 there we are. You and I. So many hours of our lives spent woven together.<br>The laughs. The heartbreaks. The love. The tears. The adventures. Year after year. Our lives together.<br>And then \u2014 you were gone in an instant. But all we built together and shared can\u2019t all just unravel like that.<br>I can\u2019t just stop loving \u2014 I can\u2019t split my life into \u201cbefore and after.\u201d<br>You are very much still here within me. I can never forget such an irreplaceable part of my life.<br>All that time \u2014 together.You\u2019re the one in all of my best memories. My wins were your wins. Yours were mine. You are always in my mind and in the hugs I can still feel somehow\u2026.<br>Some days I may look frayed and tattered \u2014 because losing you wore me down\u2026. so much. But I treasure and hold tightly what is still dear to me \u2014 our memories together.<br>You and I.<br>Me and you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy anniversary, Menoi. You are loved beyond measure, missed beyond reason, and remembered always.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 6 \u2014 a very special day. The entry today is for Claire. It\u2019s personal \u2014 read it if you want\u2026.. Today would be our anniversary. I just wrote \u201cwould\u201d be, but the truth is you\u2019re still so present in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}