{"id":2785,"date":"2008-11-24T01:07:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2008-11-24T01:07:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T17:07:01","slug":"friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/personal\/2008\/11\/24\/friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes is not easy to see things clearly. For example, imagine being informed that your good friend (who is like a sibling) just gave birth (as in a baby!). Well, for one, that means we have not met face to face for such a long period of time! That&#8217;s life in the fast lane. Even though we live within traveling distance, but very hard to meet. Can&#8217;t believe its been months.<\/p>\n<p>But wait a minute, we do chat and email every other day. Not to mention plenty of SMSes and phone calls. It kind of substituted the need for physical meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A friend would share the good things and the bad things with you.\u00a0 People have reasons for not sharing things. To protect others, for example. Or lack of trust. Or its just their nature. Perhaps its quite personal.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is a friend actually?<\/p>\n<p>One thing for sure, no one is like me. There&#8217;s only one Poobalan. \ud83d\ude42 I learnt to appreciate myself recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes is not easy to see things clearly. For example, imagine being informed that your good friend (who is like a sibling) just gave birth (as in a baby!). Well, for one, that means we have not met face to face for such a long period of time! That&#8217;s life in the fast lane. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}