{"id":1479,"date":"2005-08-10T23:49:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T06:49:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a thought, why does it happen that only one out of five friends (who are capable of self-transportion) would come to visit me?  And everyone else, why am I the one that drives or flies to see them?<\/p>\n<p>Especially when I am here only a week.<\/p>\n<p>Every single time this happens, I think to myself that I won\\&#8217;t do this again.  Yet the next time I return, I find myself driving to Santa Clara or Fremont anyway.<\/p>\n<p>They used to say, love is when she (or he) would travel the distance for you.  I can say that about true friendship.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to think of myself as someone keeps their word.  A friend a week ago sadly left for home in Arizona and is going to start work in Wisconsin.  I said I would visit.  I hear people saying that all the time, but we all know most people never do.  For me though, it will happen.  I guarantee it.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem then is that uncomfortable awkwardness of figuring out whether it was a sincere invitation or a polite butisaiditbecauseyouwerethere invitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a thought, why does it happen that only one out of five friends (who are capable of self-transportion) would come to visit me? And everyone else, why am I the one that drives or flies to see them? Especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}