{"id":50909,"date":"2011-07-11T18:16:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T22:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/50909\/friends-friendburst\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T22:16:50","slug":"friends-friendburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/50909\/friends-friendburst\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and FriendBurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;friend&#8221; is a misnomer on social networking sites.  The term &#8220;acquaintance&#8221; may be more appropriate unless you know the person in real life.<\/p>\n<p>People add you to their &#8220;friends&#8221; lists and then get hot and bothered if you don&#8217;t send them glittery comments everyday.  I will comment on your profile at least once a year (on your birthday).  If I comment any other time, I address my comment to you and not some mass comment sent to everybody and has no bearing on who you are as a person.<\/p>\n<p>I am a blogger, although not very good about it.  I blog about things that are important to me.  I visit your blogs and sometimes comment if I think I have something to add.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have to agree with you to respect you.  And I certainly do not agree 100% with anyone.  Discussing things that we disagree with each other about can be useful if it does not degenerate into name calling and trash talking.  <\/p>\n<p>I am not who I was 30 years ago, nor will I be, I hope, the same 30 years from now if I live that long.  Life, experiences and people I have met have made me who I am.  That is why I have a photo album of my heroes and blog about them from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I have made sense to somebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;friend&#8221; is a misnomer on social networking sites. The term &#8220;acquaintance&#8221; may be more appropriate unless you know the person in real life. People add you to their &#8220;friends&#8221; lists and then get hot and bothered if you don&#8217;t send them glittery comments everyday. I will comment on your profile at least once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909","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=50909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}