{"id":88005,"date":"2012-05-03T07:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88005\/know-but\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:08:21","slug":"know-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/88005\/know-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I know&#8230;but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I know I&#8217;m not the most generous human being (financially) but when I DO have it, I share it&#8211;a little&#8230;And I know I&#8217;m not the most upbeat positive person, but when I DO feel good, I try to spread THAT around too&#8230;NONE of my so-called friends have even bothered to check to see how I&#8217;m doing&#8230;Apparently all those happy people (which can be overdone occasionally) are secretly struggling with their own stuff and all that happiness and positivity is an act&#8230;maybe they too are waiting for my tax refunds, THEN they&#8217;ll be on me like flies on a sugar cake&#8230;and yet a stranger loaned me $10&#8230;he is a student at the college where I work, so we see each other twice a week&#8211;he&#8217;s not a total stranger&#8230;see, Humans are an absolute total mystery&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">there&#8217;s something people post on the other FB that kinda goes like this: &#8220;Let&#8217;s see who my real friends are&#8230;in JUST one word, say how we met then repost so I can do that for you, it&#8217;s no fun if ya don&#8217;t re-post&#8230;&#8221; Well if you need a test to prove my friendship, then maybe we&#8217;re not friends after all&#8230;I wish I had the guts to actually put that on Facebook, but I don&#8217;t&#8211;yet&#8230;On the other hand perhaps I&#8217;ve unknowingly tested my friends beyond their limits, who fuckin&#8217; knows&#8230;that may be likely&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I&#8217;ve got a paying gig Friday night; I could hardly care less&#8230;and as far as I know, I have a non-paying gig tonight, at the OTWC open mic&#8230;I think the host said he&#8217;d buy me dinner&#8211;that works for me&#8230;it&#8217;s sad and pathetic, but my ability to be genuinely happy seems to be directly connected to how much money I have&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m not the most generous human being (financially) but when I DO have it, I share it&#8211;a little&#8230;And I know I&#8217;m not the most upbeat positive person, but when I DO feel good, I try to spread THAT around too&#8230;NONE of my so-called friends have even bothered to check to see how I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88005","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=88005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}