{"id":12779,"date":"2010-02-11T20:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/02\/11\/12779.html"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T04:36:54","slug":"friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/02\/11\/friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my favorite bits of verse popped into my head again the other day, for no particular reason, as it does every so often. I've used it a lot in various contexts: .signatures for Usenet postings and email messages, a note at the end of my <a href=\"http:\/\/kith.org\/logos\/wander\/\">Wanderjahr travelogue<\/a>, etc. I last posted it here in my blog almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/05\/27\/2888.html\">five years ago<\/a>; that's long enough that I think it's worth repeating.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>From quiet homes and first beginning,<\/p>\n<p>Out to the undiscovered ends<\/p>\n<p>There's nothing worth the wear of winning<\/p>\n<p>But laughter and the love of friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash;Hilaire Belloc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bits of verse popped into my head again the other day, for no particular reason, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}