{"id":368,"date":"2008-11-09T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-11-09T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:18:00","slug":"friends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we had company.  Sunday afternoons are our &#8220;not spoken for&#8221; days.  So we enjoyed a lovely evening with friends.  I really had a good time.  I so appreciate friendship and the gift that it is.  The older I get, I realize that friendships just cannot be taken  for-granted.<\/p>\n<p>Ever stopping calling some for a couple of weeks and see what happens?  This is something that happens simply because life gets busy.  But when NOTHING happens&#8230; it makes me wonder&#8230; hum&#8230; was this just a one sided &#8220;friendship?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do I do with  that?  Maybe this is when I need to ask myself, Is it real or just another fluffy friend?  Do they feed me?  Sad&#8230; sometimes what the answer is.<\/p>\n<p>So tonight was good.  Real Friends&#8230;  sometimes that is better for the soul than pie&#8230; but the combination&#8230;. fulfillment!<\/p>\n<p>I suddenly realized that definition of a fair weather friend!  Hum&#8230; how many of those DO I have?<\/p>\n<p>A True Friendship is one of those that only gets better with age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we had company. Sunday afternoons are our &#8220;not spoken for&#8221; days. So we enjoyed a lovely evening with friends. I really had a good time. I so appreciate friendship and the gift that it is. The older I get, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}