{"id":1423,"date":"2023-05-16T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T00:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2023-05-16T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T03:16:18","slug":"honouring-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"honouring friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>when you spend the day creating<br>for a special person<br>to lift their spirits<br>and to share your love<br>and then a phone call<br>one you&#8217;ve been dreading<br>hoping not to receive<br><br>grief hits you a side blow<br>and you come tumbling down<br>the pain from within<br>echoes that of times past<br>losing a loved life long partner<br>so heartbreakingly hard<br><br>tears flow<br>where do I go with this<br>where can I go<br>but to other friends<br><br>spend time with friends<br>now<br>before its too late<br>make time<br>take time<br>before you have to join to celebrate<br>the life well lived<br>of yet another friend<br>who has left<br>too soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/40452823-B2A2-49F5-9EFB-716400B912EC-895x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1425\" width=\"488\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/40452823-B2A2-49F5-9EFB-716400B912EC-895x1024.jpeg 895w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/40452823-B2A2-49F5-9EFB-716400B912EC-262x300.jpeg 262w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/40452823-B2A2-49F5-9EFB-716400B912EC-768x878.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/40452823-B2A2-49F5-9EFB-716400B912EC.jpeg 961w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 85vw, 488px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when you spend the day creatingfor a special personto lift their spiritsand to share your loveand then a phone callone you&#8217;ve been dreadinghoping not to receive grief hits you a side blowand you come tumbling downthe pain from withinechoes that of times pastlosing a loved life long partnerso heartbreakingly hard tears flowwhere do I go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=1423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;honouring friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,105,90,91,68,70,1,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}