{"id":925,"date":"2026-04-09T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:50:09","slug":"i-thought-my-mom-just-loved-sleeping-with-the-window-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"I thought my mom just loved sleeping with the window wide open\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-926 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A214-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A214-image.jpg 572w, https:\/\/karealstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A214-image-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I used to laugh at my mom for sleeping with the window wide open in the middle of winter. I thought it was one of her strange habits\u2014how could anyone enjoy freezing like that? I\u2019d tease her, and she\u2019d just smile, brushing it off like it was nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Years passed, and I never questioned it again.<\/p>\n<p>After she passed away, I went back into her room to sort through her things. That\u2019s when I noticed something I had somehow missed all those years\u2014her radiator didn\u2019t work. Not at all. Every other room in the house had heat\u2026 except hers.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, everything made sense.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t love the cold. She just never fixed her radiator so I could stay warm in my room. Instead of complaining or asking for help, she quietly chose discomfort every single night, making it seem like it was her preference.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can\u2019t stop thinking about all the sacrifices she must have made without ever saying a word. The kind you don\u2019t notice as a child. The kind that only reveal themselves when it\u2019s too late to say thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Some love isn\u2019t loud or obvious. Sometimes, it\u2019s hidden in the cold nights we never had to feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I used to laugh at my mom for sleeping with the window wide open in the middle of winter. I thought it was one of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karealstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}