{"id":116,"date":"2025-12-27T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:01:02","slug":"i-thought-they-were-just-curious-deer-until-i-saw-what-the-little-one-was-carrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"I THOUGHT THEY WERE JUST CURIOUS DEER\u2014UNTIL I SAW WHAT THE LITTLE ONE WAS CARRYING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/605207515_122244018278120003_8413217233601082842_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/605207515_122244018278120003_8413217233601082842_n.jpg 512w, https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/605207515_122244018278120003_8413217233601082842_n-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I still remember the weight of that locket in my palm, colder than the air, heavier than metal should feel. Its symbols seemed to shift if I stared too long, like they were trying to rearrange themselves into a language I once knew and had somehow forgotten. The parchment\u2019s warning kept echoing in my head: the truth is not safe, the truth is not gentle. I realized this wasn\u2019t an invitation; it was a test.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5-SKqoXTx8yOUpUQBZGxuo0_5wLnNHRai8A&amp;s\" alt=\"I\u2019m not sure who was more curious...Myshka seeing the deer or the deer  trying to figure what the hell they were looking at. LOL I love his little  squeaks. | Patti Small Crudele | Facebook\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the days after, the world felt slightly misaligned. Lights flickered when I traced the symbols. My phone glitched whenever I tried to photograph the locket. Deer tracks appeared in the mud outside my window, then vanished before dawn. Every trail I followed in the archives circled back to the same whispered name: The Veil. A boundary, a secret, a promise. I don\u2019t know what waits beyond it yet. But the signs keep appearing\u2014and I\u2019m still following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember the weight of that locket in my palm, colder than the air, heavier than metal should feel. Its symbols seemed to shift if I&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":566,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/likeanimalslife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}