{"id":251,"date":"2007-08-23T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2007-08-23T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T08:34:00","slug":"the-day-i-needed-a-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/the-day-i-needed-a-hug\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Needed a Hug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/Rs1LZxmRPmI\/AAAAAAAAAY0\/afFdxyo9mKc\/s1600-h\/hug.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/Rs1LZxmRPmI\/AAAAAAAAAY0\/afFdxyo9mKc\/s320\/hug.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101816859063303778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The whistling sounds, tapping, water running on my window pane woke me up this morning. I was still lazing in bed. I glanced and the sky still looked dark. While laying in bed,I felt this sudden heavy pressure in my heart, an empty void. I didn&#8217;t know what it is or why its there.<\/p>\n<p>I got up, took a chair, placed it in front of my window and sat, watching the rain. Little drops of blissful cheer from the sky. I gazed in awe the patterns formed on my glass. Somehow I could always make up an image from the fine lines, as if they were encrypted message from God and I was put forward to decipher it. In the midst of my vivid imagination, sometimes I could catch the stream of colourful spectrum as the sunlight passes through my room. Seeing that light, watching the raindrops, always cheer me up. Not today, I sat for a long 10 minutes on the 23rd of August 2007, I felt bare.<\/p>\n<p>This is the day I knew I needed a hug. A hug with substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whistling sounds, tapping, water running on my window pane woke me up this morning. I was still lazing in bed. I glanced and the sky still looked dark. While laying in bed,I felt this sudden heavy pressure in my heart, an empty void. I didn&#8217;t know what it is or why its there. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-thoughts","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}