{"id":405,"date":"2014-02-17T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2014-04-18T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T23:55:37","slug":"letter-to-my-13-year-old-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Letter to My 13-Year Old Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My sister Kelly sent out a text to many of the women in her life, asking each of us to write a letter in honor of her daughter Kennedy&#8217;s 13th birthday. The request read, &#8220;please write a note to Kennedy, telling her one thing that you wish you had known when you were 13.&#8221; Since I can&#8217;t let good enough alone, I came up with 13 things that I wish I&#8217;d known.<\/p>\n<p>Included in this blog is a copy of the little booklet that I made for Kennedy. While all 13 were important nuggets, to me, the most important was the final one, &#8220;You&#8217;ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.&#8221; &#8211; Glinda the Good Witch. If all 13 year old girls took that advice to heart, the world would be a different, better place. What I know about our Kennedy, is that she already knows this!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, sweet girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My sister Kelly sent out a text to many of the women in her life, asking each of us to write a letter in honor of her daughter Kennedy&#8217;s 13th birthday. The request read, &#8220;please write a note to Kennedy, telling her one thing that you wish you had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewallace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}