{"id":274,"date":"2009-10-07T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T23:31:11","slug":"friends-that-i-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Friends that I miss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I miss my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/family\/mydadv2.htm\">dad <\/a>most of all. I wish that I could spend time with him. When I was young I was filled with &#8220;things to do.&#8221; Now I understand the value of simply &#8220;being with someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also miss my once best friend Leo Jett and my other once best friend Bob Prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A result of missing these friends is that I will no longer take for granted time spent with people. I will not rush. For example when I visit my mother-in-law I purpose to take my time with her. I&#8217;d spend the day with her except that it would wear both of us out. So I spend an hour or two at least each time I visit. No hurry, no worries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss my dad most of all. I wish that I could spend time with him. When I was young I was filled with &#8220;things to do.&#8221; Now I understand the value of simply &#8220;being with someone.&#8221; I also miss my once best friend Leo Jett and my other once&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodatus.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}