{"id":296,"date":"2005-04-25T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T21:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/25\/friendships-change\/"},"modified":"2005-04-25T22:12:24","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T21:12:24","slug":"friendships-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/25\/friendships-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendships change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how meeting a friend after some time and spending a lovely evening with him can make you sadder than not seeing him at all&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>It just brought home to me that several people who I felt really close to have grown away from me, with different lives and different friends. Sure, they still care about me, but more in a &#8220;oh, let&#8217;s catch up one of these days&#8221; kind of way. And I so very much miss them. But when I do see them (normally on my initiative), everything feels fine, so I don&#8217;t mention it (or only very circumspectly), in order not to ruin our time together.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not sure at all that this blog is the right place to ponder all of this, as it all sounds very pathetic. Plus, public. But I thought about emailing my friends about it and decided not to (because it&#8217;s my problem not theirs), yet I did have to put it &#8216;out there&#8217; somewhere, where it could be found if looked for.<\/p>\n<p>But enough of this already &#8211; I don&#8217;t feel like wallowing in self-pity. Instead I recommend that everyone who loves movies with a strong female lead, a great 1930s setting and lots of laughter to go see <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0340012\/\" target=\"new\">Being Julia<\/a>! Annette Bening is just awesome in it &#8211; a fantastic role for her. Just a really, really satisfying movie experience for me. And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m focusing on. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange how meeting a friend after some time and spending a lovely evening with him can make you sadder than not seeing him at all&#8230; It just brought home to me that several people who I felt really close to have grown away from me, with different lives and different friends. Sure, they still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}