{"id":42524,"date":"2017-08-06T07:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42524"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:16:30","slug":"hour-23-prompt-23-drifted-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-23-prompt-23-drifted-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 23 &#8211; Prompt 23 &#8211; Drifted apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today technology has advanced with<br \/>\nsocial media ensuring various platforms<br \/>\nare available for interactions, for<br \/>\nreducing the distance that time and<br \/>\nboundaries of countries have created<\/p>\n<p>We have Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram,<br \/>\nTwitter and yet we are not connected<br \/>\nTwo decades ago, we had none of these<br \/>\nWe had innocence, we had friendship,<br \/>\nwe had time and we had intent<\/p>\n<p>Our friendship knew no boundaries<br \/>\nIt was pure, filled with support,<br \/>\ntrust, laughter, joy at small things,<br \/>\nencouragement when we faltered,<br \/>\nand being there for each other<\/p>\n<p>When, how, and why did we drift apart?<br \/>\nToday, we have our own lives, I<br \/>\nknow we have our own joys and sorrows<br \/>\nBut, we don&#8217;t have each other<br \/>\nI no longer have the right to call<\/p>\n<p>you by the nick name, like I did<br \/>\nwhen we were children. When we shared<br \/>\nour dreams, somehow we did not realize<br \/>\nthat fulfilling those dreams would<br \/>\nbe at the cost of our friendship<\/p>\n<p>(c) Vijaya Gowrisankar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today technology has advanced with social media ensuring various platforms are available for interactions, for reducing the distance that time and boundaries of countries have created We have Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and yet we are not connected Two decades ago, we had none of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":753,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524","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\/753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42536,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42524\/revisions\/42536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}