{"id":24897,"date":"2011-03-22T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24897\/animals-friends\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:46:29","slug":"animals-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/24897\/animals-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"maybe animals make better friends after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">after all the talk of forming a trio with ME, two of my so-called friends have formed a group with some other folks&#8230;two of the other members of this new group include a really bad harmonica player, and a &#8220;singer&#8221;-percussionist who can&#8217;t carry a tune in\u00a0 a tractor-trailer truck&#8230;and I&#8217;ve gotten next to no response from my Craigslist ad&#8230;do people think I&#8217;m that much of a jerk, or asshole or whatever? these &#8220;friends&#8221; of mine&#8230;I&#8217;m better off without &#8217;em&#8230;we&#8217;re born alone, we die alone&#8230;why not spend the time in between alone too? of course even if I name names, those names will mean nothing to you&#8230;(sigh) I just don&#8217;t get it&#8230;I&#8217;m sorry that (especially recently) the blogs haven&#8217;t been the least bit positive and\/or uplifting&#8230;I suggest checking on Christine&#8217;s blogs&#8230;I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again&#8211;there are <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">millions<\/span> billions of people who are worse off than me&#8230;that helps a little, but only so much&#8230;I suspect *I* am gonna be the one who has to fix my Life&#8230;dammit&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">with no influence from me, the roomie is thinking about getting a dog&#8230;I would like that; I don&#8217;t HATE the Cat, but I don&#8217;t LOVE the cat either&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: medium;color: #000000\">I&#8217;m going out tonight for basically one reason only&#8211;to try to put the weekend out of my Mind&#8230;I DO hope to play some, but it&#8217;s not up to me&#8230;I&#8217;ll be surrounded by my so-called friends, oh boy&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after all the talk of forming a trio with ME, two of my so-called friends have formed a group with some other folks&#8230;two of the other members of this new group include a really bad harmonica player, and a &#8220;singer&#8221;-percussionist who can&#8217;t carry a tune in\u00a0 a tractor-trailer truck&#8230;and I&#8217;ve gotten next to no response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897","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=24897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}