{"id":23413,"date":"2024-12-22T23:33:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23413"},"modified":"2024-12-22T23:33:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:33:24","slug":"the-quiet-bond-i-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23413","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet Bond I Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a colleague, Emma, who never spoke to me, though we worked together for years. I thought she didn\u2019t want to talk to me. Then, five years later, at a Christmas party, she gave me a locket with a note inside: \u201cI\u2019m mute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I realized she couldn\u2019t speak, not that she didn\u2019t want to. Afterward, we shared a silent but understanding relationship. Seven years later, she left the company and left me another locket with the note: \u201cFavorite colleague.\u201d I was stunned by her quiet affection. I still keep both lockets and hope she\u2019s doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a colleague, Emma, who never spoke to me, though we worked together for years. I thought she didn\u2019t want to talk to me. Then, five years later, at a Christmas party, she gave me a locket with a note inside: \u201cI\u2019m mute.\u201d I realized she couldn\u2019t speak, not that she didn\u2019t want to. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23414,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23413\/revisions\/23414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}