{"id":4,"date":"2008-02-20T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-02-20T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:50:35","slug":"friends-really-are-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Really are Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was chatting with my friend Smuckley Paddlehurst today and while it's been a long time since we've seen each other, we've started chatting quite a bit recently with his new job where he's able to take in his laptop and connect up to AIM. Anyway, today we were talking about a lot of little things - nothing special, and I realized that friends really are exceptionally<\/em> precious.<\/p>\n

I've known Smuckley for over twenty years, and while there have been lots of times that we haven't lived in the same state it's always been a very comfortable<\/em> relationship. There's no pressure to stay in touch more. There's no grief if I don't call him on his birthday. He's my friend, and I'm his, and that's enough. We talk, enjoy each other, and when we get the chance, we get together, have a few laughs, and talk about old times. It's great.<\/p>\n

I've had friends longer - some since second grade, and yet for one reason or another, it's Smuckley that is the purest friend I've got. There's a lot of baggage with the others - things we said when we were little, expectations... lots of things that I guess are a lot harder to look past. But since I met Smuckley after high school, it seems that all that 'kid stuff' didn't come into play.<\/p>\n

It's great to have a friend like Smuckley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was chatting with my friend Smuckley Paddlehurst today and while it’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other, we’ve started chatting quite a bit recently with his new job where he’s able to take in his laptop and connect up to AIM. Anyway, today we were talking about a lot of little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockypufflenuggets.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}