{"id":22358,"date":"2012-12-28T19:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/28\/texts-are-secrets-theyre-little-mementos-of\/"},"modified":"2012-12-28T19:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T19:09:40","slug":"texts-are-secrets-theyre-little-mementos-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/28\/texts-are-secrets-theyre-little-mementos-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Texts are secrets. They\u2019re little mementos of inclusion and excitement you can read over and over. They\u2019re letters, journal entries, notes passed in class. Because we like to hold onto words that mean something to us. We like re-read and remember and re-live that moment when he said, \u201cI miss you,\u201d or even just \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d because you know they mean the same thing\u2026And when I text my best friend, \u201cHe texted me! \u201d and she replies, \u201cYay!\u201d, we\u2019re not a generation lost staring at screens. We\u2019re in corsets being handed scrolls sealed with his coat-of-arms. We\u2019re in sundresses waiting for the postman to drop his letter. We\u2019re on swing sets hoping to circle \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no.\u2019 We\u2019re a million starry eyes still staring at the same starry skies with fingers crossed and hopes high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/2012\/12\/26\/no-texting-challenge-2\/\">DateByNumbers No Texting, No Exceptions<\/a>\u00a0on CollegeCandy (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/datebynumbers.tumblr.com\/\">datebynumbers<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texts are secrets. They\u2019re little mementos of inclusion and excitement you can read over and over. They\u2019re letters, journal entries, notes passed in class. Because we like to hold onto words that mean something to us. We like re-read and remember and re-live that moment when he said, \u201cI miss you,\u201d or even just \u201cMerry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/12\/28\/texts-are-secrets-theyre-little-mementos-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3020],"class_list":["post-22358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accurate","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}