{"id":157,"date":"2011-09-14T00:34:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/?p=157"},"modified":"2016-12-09T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T23:52:22","slug":"tomyfriends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/tomyfriends\/","title":{"rendered":"To My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. It has been a long time since I have posted any thoughts here..but I hope that you all will take a moment to read this:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>First,<\/strong><\/em> to the many of you who I adore, love and cherish &#8211; my friends, I am sorry. I am sorry for being so wrapped up in other areas of my life that I forget to call, or email, &#8211; if for nothing else than to tell you that I adore, love and cherish you. I am sorry for only calling when it seems urgent, or when I need something (because I know only you have that magic) &#8211; sorry for assuming that you know that I always adore, love and cherish you.<\/p>\n<p>There are not many of you who love me enough\u00a0 to truly call me a friend and I am so grateful for those of you who do.\u00a0 You inspire me even when you are not around &#8211; memories flood my mind of advice given, sorrows made easier by your words and your laughter, life made into &#8220;living&#8221; by your belief in me- and your determination to make me have that same belief in myself.<\/p>\n<p>and I say it now &#8211; I thank you for being my friends, I adore you, I cherish you and I love you. I think of you often and am going to be making some calls and sending some emails &#8211; why? Because I miss you, and because I know it&#8217;s my turn to reach out.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Second,<\/strong><\/em> I know that there is great loss, pain and sadness in our community at this time, but there is also great love, compassion and healing &#8211; thank you to every person out there who has put someone else before themselves today ~<\/p>\n<p>Teenya<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. It has been a long time since I have posted any thoughts here..but I hope that you all will take a moment to read this: First, to the many of you who I adore, love and cherish &#8211; my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/tomyfriends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenyafranklin.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}