{"id":115246,"date":"2014-03-05T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115246\/im-the-one\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:45:07","slug":"im-the-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/115246\/im-the-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M the one&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">&#8230;who drifted away&#8230;not Skip or Mark or Shelley or Richard or ad infinitum&#8230;ME, *I* am the one who drifted off&#8230;on the other hand NOBODY fought to keep me&#8230;as for lately, only one (one!) Facebook &#8220;friend&#8221; has checked in with me so far&#8230;but Rick has been in touch as well, SLR too&#8230;Lou? not so much&#8230;I KNOW his daughter is a handful, it must be extremely difficult to have a handicapped child&#8230;I don&#8217;t have one but I have BECOME one&#8211;and that is very VERY bad&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">as for the proposed Musical Tribute to Skip, I doubt that I&#8217;ll be a part of it&#8230;I kinda don&#8217;t wanna see Shelley again&#8230;there&#8217;s no point as far as I can figure&#8230;If only she hadn&#8217;t aged so well&#8230;(sigh) it&#8217;s WAY past time I learn to BE HERE NOW&#8230;even though &#8220;now&#8221; often sucks&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I went to work after Dinner, it was hard to focus; harder than usual that is&#8230;just about all I could think of was Shelley&#8230;I was wondering how\/why we drifted apart when I realized *I* drifted away&#8230;every time I would leave a band and join another one, I would leave one group of people behind and join another one&#8230;from the very beginning (Koinonia) right through the present day&#8230;I&#8217;m not in a band currently, and I feel almost totally friendless&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">After Koinonia, I hooked up with Mark and his friends, which led to (and briefly mixed with) Skip and his friends&#8211;that&#8217;s where Shelley comes in&#8230;MESA (the band Skip and I were in together) led to a group called SPICE&#8230;Tim, one of MESA&#8217;S drummers, introduced me to Joe&#8230;I think they worked together&#8230;Joe introduced me to his sister Linda&#8230;I&#8217;m not up to talking about HER&#8230;A former broadcasting school classmate put an ad the Sunday paper to get in touch with me and that&#8217;s how I ended up in The Last Chance Band the first time&#8211;or was it the SECOND time?&#8230;anyway that led to the Deserters\/Substitute and yet another group of friends&#8230;so ya see, it was I who drifted from one social circle to another&#8230;although like I said, nobody fought to keep me&#8211;at least that&#8217;s the way *I* remember it&#8230;<br \/>\n <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;who drifted away&#8230;not Skip or Mark or Shelley or Richard or ad infinitum&#8230;ME, *I* am the one who drifted off&#8230;on the other hand NOBODY fought to keep me&#8230;as for lately, only one (one!) Facebook &#8220;friend&#8221; has checked in with me so far&#8230;but Rick has been in touch as well, SLR too&#8230;Lou? not so much&#8230;I KNOW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}