{"id":77,"date":"2019-08-08T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nordthemes.com\/wild-book-demo\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:07:54","slug":"the-stranger-wearing-my-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/08\/the-stranger-wearing-my-face\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger Wearing My Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mirror greets me with a face I don\u2019t recognise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It isn\u2019t exciting, nor fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A smile appears, but it is borrowed, rehearsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somewhere between yesterday and now, I replaced myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a shadow, I couldn\u2019t find, or the being I want to embody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder if the reflection, too, is searching for me, or, does it know the knowledge I hold,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or the truth I have?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stranger does not speak, it lives through my existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stranger does not hear, yet, it breathes through my silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One day, this stranger too,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will walk through the memories I once held close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mirror greets me with a face I don\u2019t recognise. It isn\u2019t exciting, nor fascinating. A smile appears, but it is borrowed, rehearsed. It\u2019s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miraini.associatedmedia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}