{"id":32340,"date":"2020-08-04T22:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32340"},"modified":"2020-08-04T22:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:20:38","slug":"briefly-article-i-wrote-about-missing-someone-still-connects-with-tens-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32340","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Article I wrote about missing someone still connects with tens of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s something I wrote four and a half years ago \u2014 in the desperation of loneliness \u2014 and it\u2019s become my most popular article. It\u2019s not my best writing. It\u2019s raw and unpolished. But it seems as though a lot of people can identify with it. It\u2019s called Missing someone creates intense physical sensations in my heart<\/a>. Just to give you an idea how many people still read it, I had 11,586 people visit the page last month \u2014 from 2,907 cities and towns around the world. London sent the most readers for it, followed by New York, Westminster, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto and almost 3,000 more. I\u2019ve noticed something interesting. It always gets the most hits from an area of the world in the late hours, right after midnight, and that breaks my heart \u2014 because I understand why. All these people are so lonely and are missing someone so much that they turn to a search engine looking for answers, so they stumble upon this piece. I wrote this late at night on the day after Christmas because my heart was breaking. I needed to express how much I missed someone, and a lot of people seem to identify with it. If you\u2019re one of those people, I have no way of knowing who you are, but I empathize with you. I know why you hurt. I wish I could do more to help. I hurt with you, because after all this time, I still feel the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s something I wrote four and a half years ago \u2014 in the desperation of loneliness \u2014 and it\u2019s become my most popular article. It\u2019s not my best writing. It\u2019s raw and unpolished. But it seems as though a lot of people can identify with it. It\u2019s called Missing someone creates intense physical sensations in Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8pC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32343,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions\/32343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}