{"id":281,"date":"2026-03-31T01:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:01:32","slug":"widowed-not-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Widowed, Not Single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-duotone-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"white and grey leaves\" class=\"wp-image-268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg?w=1880&amp;ssl=1 1880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by Aliesha low on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/white-and-grey-leaves-2019587\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ocean rises and falls day after day. Compare that with the waves of a grieving widow and the two aren\u2019t unalike. Day after day, a pain, felt within the depths of everything that exists now and what existed before, shoots through the soul without warning and with the fullest force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Mary A. Jones <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ocean rises and falls day after day. Compare that with the waves of a grieving widow and the two aren\u2019t unalike. Day after day, a pain, felt within the depths of everything that exists now and what existed before, shoots through the soul without warning and with the fullest force. -Mary A. Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pexels-photo-2019587.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marywrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}