{"id":65,"date":"2025-04-14T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:35:37","slug":"bohag-bihu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Remembering You This Bohag Bihu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dear Adi,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is Bohag Bihu\u2014the Assamese New Year. It\u2019s always been one of my favourite festivals. I loved shopping for new clothes for all of us and cooking special dishes to make the day festive. No matter where in the world we were, I always tried to make it special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this year&#8230; I didn\u2019t even remember it was Bihu until today. It feels like I am in a limbo. It feels like I\u2019m just moving through life, going about my chores simply because I have to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, we bought that beautiful blue kurta for you. <em><strong>You looked so handsome in it, my beautiful boy.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess we now have to learn how to live through festivals and occasions without you physically with us. But I choose to believe you\u2019re still here\u2014watching over us like the sweet angel you\u2019ve always been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I miss you so much, Adi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will this heartache ever become bearable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love you forever,<br>Mamma<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Adi, Today is Bohag Bihu\u2014the Assamese New Year. It\u2019s always been one of my favourite festivals. I loved shopping for new clothes for all of us and cooking special dishes to make the day festive. No matter where in the world we were, I always tried to make it special. But this year&#8230; I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[9,8,7],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-adi","category-my-journey","tag-grief-journaling","tag-healing-journey","tag-memories","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dearadi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}