{"id":16413,"date":"2025-09-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/2025\/09\/15\/normality-canceled-the-brace-stays\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T10:53:36","slug":"normality-canceled-the-brace-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/en\/2025\/09\/15\/normality-canceled-the-brace-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"Normality canceled. The brace stays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday was supposed to bring relief. I was meant to take off the brace and take my first step back toward normal life. I could almost feel the wind in my hair and the scent of freedom\u2026 But no. Instead, I got a sentence: another six weeks in the brace.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/noga1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/noga1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/noga1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/noga1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m not sure what hurts more \u2014 my leg or the disappointment. For the past few days, I\u2019ve been feeling down (mentally, because physically I\u2019m mostly limping). No one told me it would take this long. No warning, no heads-up. And I, naively, believed it was almost over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m writing this because maybe some of you have had your hopes crushed too. Maybe you were waiting for a better tomorrow that\u2019s now been postponed indefinitely. Well, we\u2019ll wait together. And maybe we\u2019ll even laugh \u2014 if only through tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8222;Sometimes you have to pause to understand where you&#8217;re truly heading.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was supposed to bring relief. I was meant to take off the brace and take my first step back toward normal life. I could almost feel the wind in my hair and the scent of freedom\u2026 But no. Instead, I got a sentence: another six weeks in the brace. I\u2019m not sure what hurts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679,624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-en","category-inne-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18919,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions\/18919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}