{"id":3217,"date":"2016-02-15T02:57:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T07:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2024-02-15T03:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T08:01:32","slug":"brighter-now-brighter-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/brighter-now-brighter-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Inspiration: i once loved someone who kept saying\u2026 be smaller. now smaller, still&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/within-ache-BRAND-LOGO-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"i once loved someone who kept saying\u2026 be smaller. now smaller, still... but as small as i made myself, it was never, ever small enough\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/within-ache-BRAND-LOGO-2-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/within-ache-BRAND-LOGO-2-1-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/within-ache-BRAND-LOGO-2-1-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/within-ache-BRAND-LOGO-2-1-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/within-ache-BRAND-LOGO-2-1-570x333.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>i once loved<br \/>\nsomeone who kept saying\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cbe smaller. now smaller, still.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>but as small as i made myself,<br \/>\nit was never, ever small enough.<br \/>\nbecause my light was never the problem\u2026<br \/>\ntheir own darkness was.<\/p>\n<p>so the next time i love,<br \/>\ni want to love someone who says\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cbrighter. now brighter, still\u2026<br \/>\nyou could never, ever shine too much.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; butterflies rising<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&raquo; the butterflies rising poem <a href=\"https:\/\/butterfliesrising.com\/brighter-now-brighter-still\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"i once loved someone who kept saying\u2026 be smaller. now smaller, still... but as small as i made myself, it was never, ever small enough\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;i once loved someone who kept saying\u2026 be smaller. now smaller, still&#8230; but as small as i made myself, it was never, ever small enough'<\/a> was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>i once loved<br \/>\nsomeone who kept saying\u2026<br \/>\n\u201cbe smaller. now smaller, still.\u201c<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; butterflies rising<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[216,132,125,193,98,60],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirit","tag-butterflies-rising","tag-inspiration","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-quote"],"psp_head":"<title>i once loved someone who kept saying... be smaller. now smaller - butterflies rising<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"i once loved someone who kept saying\u2026 be smaller. now smaller, still... but as small as i made myself, it was never, ever small enough is a butterflies rising poem.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/brighter-now-brighter-still\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}