{"id":1018,"date":"2010-12-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-03-27T13:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:35:03","slug":"brother-from-another-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Former Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TQig_-cg0TI\/AAAAAAAACq8\/LEq8soS9Ly4\/s1600\/AZ15.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TQig_-cg0TI\/AAAAAAAACq8\/LEq8soS9Ly4\/s400\/AZ15.jpg?resize=378%2C400\" width=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">I once referred to the man in the photo above as my eighth brother, or my brother from another mother.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we have completely lost touch.  I deleted the content of this post in 2019 when it was apparent to me that I can&#8217;t refer to him as a friend any more.  He stopped communicating with me in 2013 and I have not heard from him since, and I do not know why.  This is sad; we once were very close.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  recognize when you have friends &#8230; and when you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once referred to the man in the photo above as my eighth brother, or my brother from another mother. Unfortunately, we have completely lost touch. I deleted the content of this post in 2019 when it was apparent to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}