{"id":2863,"date":"2026-02-23T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:13:24","slug":"slow-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/slow-fade\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Fade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Today, I feel less alive than yesterday,<br>And yesterday, less than the day before.<br>Fading, vanishing, dissolving,<br>Unseen, unheard, unwanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Someday soon,<br>When I draw my last breath<br>My heart beats no more,<br>And midnight claims my soul,<br>Who will remember me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">And who will know I was ever here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">My thoughts drift as I ponder this life,\u00a0<br>What is, what was, what could have been.<br>It was not the life I dreamed of,<br>Planned for, or wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">But in the twilight of my years,<br>I will bravely face my fate,<br>Silent, alone, and forgotten,<br>As I slowly fade away.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">100-word poetic drabble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I feel less alive than yesterday,And yesterday, less than the day before.Fading, vanishing, dissolving,Unseen, unheard, unwanted. Someday soon,When I draw my last breathMy heart beats no more,And midnight claims my soul,Who will remember me? And who will know I was ever here? My thoughts drift as I ponder this life,\u00a0What is, what was, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[14,18],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama-literary","tag-drabble","tag-poetry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Slow_Fade.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}