{"id":9989,"date":"2014-10-06T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:15:24","slug":"a-reunion-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/a-reunion-of-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reunion of Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-IMG_20141004_130842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9990\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-IMG_20141004_130842.jpg\" alt=\"1-IMG_20141004_130842\" width=\"650\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-IMG_20141004_130842.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-IMG_20141004_130842-300x109.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-IMG_20141004_130842-500x183.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I joined some of our friends from our early years in Texas for lunch this weekend. (Richard couldn&#8217;t come because he was on the elk hunt with his dad.) Our oldest children were babies together, and now they are all grown up. We became friends\u00a0at an exciting time in our lives, far from our home states. These and other couples became our family.<\/p>\n<p>My Grandma Stewart encouraged me to find friends during our newlywed years. She and Grandpa made lasting friendships during their early years of marriage. Richard and I have moved around quite a bit so our friendships have not been so constant as my grandmother&#8217;s. However, gathering together on Saturday, I can see why I called them friends all those years ago and that we really haven&#8217;t changed\u00a0much. There are lots of sweet memories. We share a common history and that is not easily forgotten. It&#8217;s only when we talk about our children dating, driving, and going to college that we begin to feel our age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined some of our friends from our early years in Texas for lunch this weekend. (Richard couldn&#8217;t come because he was on the elk hunt with his dad.) Our oldest children were babies together, and now they are all grown up. We became friends\u00a0at an exciting time in our lives, far from our home &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/a-reunion-of-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Reunion of Friends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}