{"id":4939,"date":"2015-12-22T20:03:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T01:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T17:23:14","slug":"it-lasts-for-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4939","title":{"rendered":"It lasts for always"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peepermarch09.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2637\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2637 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peepermarch09.jpg\" alt=\"peepermarch09\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peepermarch09.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/peepermarch09-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a> Peeper the rabbit died today. She was pretty old and quite shabby, but I loved her just as much today as when she was splendid and new. I&#8217;d loved most of her whiskers off, the pink linings of her ears had gone gray, and her brown fur was falling out. She even began to lose her shape and scarcely looked like a rabbit to anyone but me. To me she was always beautiful and very, very Real. Love is real and it lasts for always.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read The Velveteen Rabbit, you&#8217;ll know how happy I was to give her my heart all these years so that she could become Real. I will miss her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peeper the rabbit died today. She was pretty old and quite shabby, but I loved her just as much today as when she was splendid and new. I&#8217;d loved most of her whiskers off, the pink linings of her ears had gone gray, and her brown fur was falling out. She even began to lose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=4939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It lasts for always<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}