{"id":364,"date":"2009-03-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2016-05-21T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T20:14:44","slug":"happy-birthday-to-a-wonderful-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/ScgXmSMWIAI\/AAAAAAAABLQ\/gcYRi0GpnpA\/s1600-h\/AZ14.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/ScgXmSMWIAI\/AAAAAAAABLQ\/gcYRi0GpnpA\/s320\/AZ14.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316525306596958210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Today I extend my most sincere well-wishes to my (former) friend, &#8220;AZ&#8221;.  He is a warm, sensitive, caring and thoughtful man with a great sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p>I was honored to call him my friend back in 2007 &#8211; 2011.  He has a wide circle of people who care deeply for him and for whom he &#8220;cares back.&#8221;  I was honored to be among them, back in the day.  <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t belabor this blog post any more &#8212; AZ isn&#8217;t one to seek attention.<\/p>\n<p>On my (former) buddy&#8217;s very special day, his birthday, he is deserving of thanks and praise for the richness and blessings he brings to his family and his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  Happy Birthday, AZ!  <\/p>\n<p><em>Note (2016 update): AZ dropped out of my life for unknown reasons in 2012 and I have had very little contact with him since then.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I extend my most sincere well-wishes to my (former) friend, &#8220;AZ&#8221;. He is a warm, sensitive, caring and thoughtful man with a great sense of humor. I was honored to call him my friend back in 2007 &#8211; 2011. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=364\">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-364","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\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}