{"id":250,"date":"2008-07-23T22:25:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=318"},"modified":"2008-07-23T22:25:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:25:01","slug":"keeping-in-touch-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Keeping in touch with friends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked over to my friend&#8217;s place this evening (<a href=\"http:\/\/coffeewithgod.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">CWG<\/a>&#8216;s wife) and hung out with her for a while.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been far too long since I&#8217;ve hung out with her.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been thinking about some of my other friends and how I haven&#8217;t seen them for a while either.<\/p>\n<p>Life can totally get away on you.\u00a0 And when I get wrapped up with all the &#8216;internal&#8217; things (family, work, home) its harder to focus on the external things (like friends you haven&#8217;t talked to in a while).\u00a0 And yet when I do see my friends I find it so refreshing and find myself thinking afterwards, &#8220;Why has it been so long since I&#8217;ve gotten together with her?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make more of an effort to see my friends.\u00a0 I miss them.\u00a0 I miss hearing about <em>their<\/em> lives and <em>their<\/em> frustrations and <em>their<\/em> joys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked over to my friend&#8217;s place this evening (CWG&#8216;s wife) and hung out with her for a while.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been far too long since [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=250\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}