{"id":1288,"date":"2008-04-27T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1288"},"modified":"2008-04-27T20:31:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T01:31:05","slug":"true-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1288","title":{"rendered":"True Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of very dear friends tried to do something for me over the weekend that I&#8217;ve tried to do a time or two for other friends, mostly straight, but which nobody has ever bothered to do for me before.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t go into detail now&#8230;maybe some day soon&#8230;but I&#8217;ve never felt so loved.&nbsp; And even though they didn&#8217;t quite manage to pull it off just the fact that they did it it made me feel more alive now, more connected with the life I have, and the things I&#8217;ve managed to accomplish for myself, then I have since I was in my twenties.&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been a sleep walker for most of the last half of my life it seems.&nbsp; I feel somewhat awakened now.&nbsp; More&#8230;real.\n<\/p>\n<p>Life is sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of very dear friends tried to do something for me over the weekend that I&#8217;ve tried to do a time or two for other friends, mostly straight, but which nobody has ever bothered to do for me before.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t go into detail now&#8230;maybe some day soon&#8230;but I&#8217;ve never felt so loved.&nbsp; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}