{"id":69053,"date":"2025-08-23T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=69053"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:47:34","slug":"dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\">For a while I read Katherine Mansfield\u2019s notebooks to distract myself. \u2018Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life,\u2019 she wrote in an entry. I cried when I read the line. It reminds me of the boy from years ago who could not stop sending the designs of his dreams in his letters. It reminds me too why I do not want to stop writing. The books one writes\u2014past and present and future\u2014are they not trying to say the same thing: Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life? What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance, if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life, Yiyun Li<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while I read Katherine Mansfield\u2019s notebooks to distract myself. \u2018Dear friend, from my life I write to you in your life,\u2019 she wrote in an entry. I cried when I read the line. It reminds me of the boy from years ago who could not stop sending the designs of his dreams in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/dear-friend-from-my-life-i-write-to-you-in-your-life\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69054,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69053\/revisions\/69054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}