{"id":883,"date":"2026-06-18T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/?p=883"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:48:52","slug":"a-different-kind-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/a-different-kind-of-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I had a question I\u2019ve been carrying since mid-May, and I finally got some sort of answer this morning&#8230;. kinda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It wasn\u2019t the answer I expected, and honestly, it hurt to find out through a public post rather than a direct conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve always believed honesty and communication matter, especially in friendships. Even difficult conversations are easier to handle than silence and wondering what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Maybe I\u2019ll never know the whole story, and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I wish her well and hope she finds whatever she\u2019s been looking for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">As for me, I\u2019m choosing to let go of the questions and move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a question I\u2019ve been carrying since mid-May, and I finally got some sort of answer this morning&#8230;. kinda. It wasn\u2019t the answer I expected, and honestly, it hurt to find out through a public post rather than a direct conversation. I\u2019ve always believed honesty and communication matter, especially in friendships. Even difficult conversations <a href=\"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/a-different-kind-of-closure\/\" class=\"read-more below\">&#8230; Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}