{"id":228,"date":"2021-04-27T19:49:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T00:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kandy.net\/?p=228"},"modified":"2021-04-27T19:49:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T00:49:03","slug":"55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"#55"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found out an old friend is in the hospital. He\u2019s not someone I talk to regularly or even have in many years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he IS someone who holds a very high influence on the person I am today. We met during my exploratory years. He introduced me to so much music I\u2019d never give a listen to. The mixed CDs we used to share. The stories we told over drinks. The music he played. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do other people feel such strong connections with folks they don\u2019t even talk to? Or is it just me? If it\u2019s just me, I guess I&#8217;m okay with that? But maybe I should express my adoration a bit more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My promise to myself &#8211; I will show appreciation when it\u2019s due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out an old friend is in the hospital. He\u2019s not someone I talk to regularly or even have in many years. But he IS someone who holds a very high influence on the person I am today. We met during my exploratory years. He introduced me to so much music I\u2019d never give &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kandy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}