{"id":22444,"date":"2025-07-30T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/?page_id=22444"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:01:13","slug":"him","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/him\/","title":{"rendered":"Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><section class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12  col-xs-mobile-fullwidth\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  no-column-padding\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"pofo-blog-simple\"><div class=\"col-4-nth-item  infinite-scroll-pagination\"><div class=\"blog-style6-1 margin-80px-bottom sm-margin-35px-bottom xs-margin-15px-bottom col-md-3 col-sm-6 col-xs-12  blog-single-post wow fadeInUp\"><div class=\"post-22487 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-him\"><div class=\"blog-post blog-post-style2 xs-text-center\"><div class=\"post-details\"><span class=\"post-author text-extra-small text-medium-gray display-block margin-10px-bottom sm-margin-5px-bottom text-uppercase\"><span class=\"pofo-blog-post-meta text-extra-small text-medium-gray display-inline-block published vertical-align-middle\">01 August 2025<\/span><time class=\"updated display-none\" datetime=\"2025-08-01T13:07:24+00:00\">01 August 2025<\/time><\/span><span class=\"text-large alt-font margin-15px-bottom display-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/our-song\/\" class=\"text-extra-dark-gray entry-title\">Our Song<\/a><\/span><div class=\"margin-25px-bottom xs-margin-15px-bottom width-90 xs-width-100 entry-content\">Have you ever liked a song because it reminded you of something \u2014 or rather, someone? I have...<\/div><div class=\"separator-line-horrizontal-full bg-medium-light-gray margin-25px-bottom xs-margin-15px-bottom\"><\/div><div class=\"author margin-20px-bottom sm-margin-15px-bottom text-uppercase\"><span class=\"pofo-blog-post-meta text-medium-gray text-extra-small\">by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/author\/him\/\" class=\"url fn n text-medium-gray\">Him<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"pofo-blog-post-meta blog-like-comment text-uppercase\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=process_simple_like&nonce=24aa932660&post_id=22487&disabled=true&is_comment=0\" class=\"sl-button blog-like sl-button-22487\" data-nonce=\"24aa932660\" data-post-id=\"22487\" data-iscomment=\"0\" title=\"Like\"><i class=\"fa-regular fa-heart\"><\/i><span>173<\/span> <span class=\"posts-like\">Likes<\/span><\/a><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/our-song\/\" class=\"btn-black btn no-margin-bottom margin-20px-top sm-margin-15px-top white-space-normal btn-very-small\">Read story<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever liked a song because it reminded you of something \u2014 or rather, someone? I have a few songs that bring back memories of a great movie or a fun party. But one in particular stood out for a long time. When I was younger, I was part of something called Chiro, a Belgian youth movement similar to scouts, but with its own unique traditions. One of those traditions was the daily \"wake-up song\" that blasted across the campsite each morning. During my final year as a Chiro member \u2014 before I became a leader \u2014 our wake-up song was \u201cBongo Bong\u201d by Manu Chao. And for the longest time, that song hit me the hardest. Every time I heard it, I was instantly transported back to that last summer camp \u2014 easily the most memorable one. That was true, at least, until early September 2024. When I started texting with Her, we did so through Instagram. You know how you can add a song to your stories? (I still haven\u2019t figured out how to do it myself.) One day, I opened Instagram to read Her messages. Her story circle popped up first \u2014 and it had a...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22444"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22500,"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22444\/revisions\/22500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howifeel.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}