{"id":691,"date":"2009-11-08T06:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2011-01-25T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:13:00","slug":"you-got-to-have-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2009\/11\/you-got-to-have-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"You Got To Have Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought a lot about who I would mention as the person I&#8217;m grateful for.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I love my son and daughter to death, and am so thankful for their presence in my life.  I could write volumes about each of them.  <\/p>\n<p>I considered my two wonderful sisters, all my other relatives, and the great folks I work with.  I thought about a variety of friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/portrait-margaret-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"margaret-shulock\" title=\"margaret-shulock\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-692\" \/>Ultimately I decided to pause on my friend Margaret.  We speak daily.  Often several times daily.  Margaret makes me laugh far beyond the gags in <a href=\"http:\/\/thesixchix.com\/?page_id=18\" target= \"_blank\">her cartoons<\/a>.  We share similar taste in many things &#8211; books, movies, and music &#8211; each stretching the other&#8217;s repertoire.  We&#8217;ve each gotten the other hooked on certain TV shows.  She understands exactly where I&#8217;m coming from, since we have many parallel life experiences.  She never judges me when I say silly or inappropriate things, is great to bounce ideas off, and is honest when I ask for her opinion.<\/p>\n<p>And we share a first name.  How cool is that?!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought a lot about who I would mention as the person I&#8217;m grateful for. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I love my son and daughter to death, and am so thankful for their presence in my life. I could write volumes about each of them. <\/p>\n<p>I considered my two wonderful sisters, all my other relatives, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}