{"id":372,"date":"2010-09-01T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=372"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:00:48","slug":"some-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/09\/some-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Changes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hard part (at least for me)<br \/>\nabout breaking up is losing the friendship.\u00a0 If even just temporarily.\u00a0 Setting arbitrary dates of when you can touch base again and see where we are in life.\u00a0 But the thing is, you won&#8217;t be in the same place.\u00a0 I suppose that&#8217;s a good thing in some ways, as there&#8217;s a reason things had to change.\u00a0 But there is still a feeling of deep loss.\u00a0 Like the act of actively not talking to someone will just make that the new status quo.\u00a0 At the end of the arbitrary time, there just won&#8217;t anything left but awkwardness and bittersweet memories.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this morning was seeped in melancholy for me, and listening to the John Prine version of the below song probably didn&#8217;t help.\u00a0 But it sums up a little of what I&#8217;m feeling this morning.<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6uBHxCwdek?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hard part (at least for me) about breaking up is losing the friendship.\u00a0 If even just temporarily.\u00a0 Setting arbitrary dates of when you can touch base again and see where we are in life.\u00a0 But the thing is, you won&#8217;t be in the same place.\u00a0 I suppose that&#8217;s a good thing in some ways, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2010\/09\/some-changes\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,101,102,28,103],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-a","tag-breaking-up-is-hard-to-do","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-melancholy","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}