{"id":69,"date":"2022-11-05T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:42:41","slug":"they-told-me-to-stay-quiet-i-chose-to-speak-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"They Told Me to Stay Quiet. I Chose to Speak Anyway."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am someone who refuses to be silenced, even in a world that constantly tries to quiet me.<br>Through my blog, I am finding my way back to myself. Each word I write feels like an act of<br>courage, a quiet rebellion against the limitations placed around me. I live in a space where<br>speaking freely is not always safe, where opinions are judged, and truth can be uncomfortable.<br>For a long time, I learned to hold back and to swallow my thoughts, to soften my voice, to stay<br>unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>But silence never felt like home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"opacity: 0;\" superb-addons-animation=\"fadeIn\"><br>Now, I am choosing differently. Through my writing, I am reclaiming what was always mine:<br>my voice. I write about the things that matter to me; justice, identity, womanhood, and the<br>realities many are afraid to name. I also write about myself, my fears, my growth, my<br>contradictions, my healing. Nothing I share is perfectly polished, but everything is real.<br>I do not have all the answers. I am still learning, still unlearning, still finding the courage to say<br>things out loud. But I show up anyway again and again.<br>Because even in a world that tries to silence me, I am choosing to be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am someone who refuses to be silenced, even in a world that constantly tries to quiet me.Through my blog, I am finding my way back to myself. Each word I write feels like an act ofcourage, a quiet rebellion against the limitations placed around me. I live in a space wherespeaking freely is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f-yesmin.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}