{"id":1680,"date":"2026-01-24T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:40:10","slug":"le-retour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"Le retour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reading old blog posts is so cringy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be honest, reading anything I wrote during the years when my body still produced its own collagen makes me feel a bit poorly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social media and I parted company quite a few years ago now after it turned out we weren&#8217;t at all compatible. Not all relationships work out in the longer term, I&#8217;ve found, especially those that just make you sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, I sort of miss writing complete nonsense for no reason. There&#8217;s an identity in words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;m here I am, hypocritical in all the ways that I find social media superfluous and exposing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But at least now, I guess, I do use a night cream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot plum tea, in a warm cafe, where there&#8217;s a dog and it&#8217;s -4 outside is spectacular. Smiling at strangers with the bits of plant still stuck in between your teeth is character building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading old blog posts is so cringy. To be honest, reading anything I wrote during the years when my body still produced its own collagen makes me feel a bit poorly. Social media and I parted company quite a few years ago now after it turned out we weren&#8217;t at all compatible. Not all relationships&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}