{"id":8213,"date":"2026-03-24T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/the-window-that-never-closed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:39:54","slug":"the-window-that-never-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/the-window-that-never-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"The window that never closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_9506-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_9506-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_9506-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_9506-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_9506-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_9506.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p>Tuesday, March 24<\/p><p>In my Florence,<br\/>in Piazza Santissima Annunziata,<br\/>inside Palazzo Budini-Gattai,<br\/>there was a woman<br\/>who stood at her window.<\/p><p>Looking out at the square,<br\/>waiting for the man she loved.<\/p><p>He had left for war.<\/p><p>And he never came back.<\/p><p>Still&#8230;<br\/>she kept waiting.<\/p><p>Not for days.<br\/>Not for months.<\/p><p>For years.<\/p><p>She grew older.<br\/>But every morning,<br\/>she was there.<\/p><p>At the same window.<br\/>Looking at the same place.<br\/>Holding on to the same love.<\/p><p>Until one day&#8230;<br\/>she was gone.<\/p><p>But they say<br\/>that window never closed.<\/p><p>Even today,<br\/>it remains slightly open.<\/p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s just a window.<\/p><p>Or maybe&#8230;<\/p><p>it&#8217;s what love looks like when it is real.<\/p><p>Not loud.<br\/>Not perfect.<\/p><p>Just present.<\/p><p>&#8211; Fuerpa Slow Journal<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, March 24 In my Florence,in Piazza Santissima Annunziata,inside Palazzo Budini-Gattai,there was a womanwho stood at her window. Looking out at the square,waiting for the man she loved. He had left for war. And he never came back. Still&#8230;she kept waiting. Not for days.Not for months. For years. She grew older.But every morning,she was there. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[284,217,208,216,192],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slow-journal-en","tag-as-well","tag-eternal-love-en","tag-fuerpa-en","tag-love-en","tag-presence-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/8214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuerpa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}