{"id":20266,"date":"2016-08-13T13:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20266"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:11:29","slug":"friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">It can be one of the easiest or hardest<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">relationships to maintain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Some will always be there<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">as you are for them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">But others will pause and remove themselves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">expecting understanding<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">These are the hard ones<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">bonded, yet strained <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I have been on both sides<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">the reaching and the withdrawing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I have been rewarded with forgiveness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">that I sometimes find hard to give<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">But as we ebb and flow into each other\u2019s lives<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">the rhythm finds a way<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">And soon we are around a table laughing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">as if no time or space has passed at all<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be one of the easiest or hardest relationships to maintain \u00a0 Some will always be there as you are for them \u00a0 But others will pause and remove themselves expecting understanding \u00a0 These are the hard ones bonded, yet strained \u00a0 I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20281,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266\/revisions\/20281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}