{"id":128,"date":"2012-06-23T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.wordpress.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-10-20T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:44:55","slug":"friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>life&#8217;s truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7462176448_1691745184_m.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-227\" title=\"7462176448_1691745184_m\" src=\"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7462176448_1691745184_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They meet on the last Saturday of every month.<\/p>\n<p>Sally served the perfect afternoon tea:\u00a0perfectly triangular sandwiches on a tiered stand, with perfect bite-sized homemade cakes made by perfect Alice and\u00a0a chilled glass of champagne.\u00a0 Fine china teacups and plates and tall flutes on white linen.<\/p>\n<p>The perfect place for old friends to share their stories.<\/p>\n<p>Ageing parents and the burden of caring;\u00a0a game of who\u2019s still alive and who isn&#8217;t; children fleeing the nest and the propriety of\u00a0vetting significant others; partners and ever decreasing circles; expanding waistlines and mirrors; botox and airbrushing; tooth whitening that&#8217;s<em> all the rage, <\/em>receding gums\u00a0and the pain and price of inevitable root canal;\u00a0creaking bones, big pants, operations, hormone replacement therapy and hot flushes.\u00a0 Doctors.\u00a0 Cemeteries.\u00a0 God.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>life&#8217;s truest happiness is found in the friendships we make along the way They meet on the last Saturday of every month. Sally served the perfect afternoon tea:\u00a0perfectly triangular sandwiches on a tiered stand, with perfect bite-sized homemade cakes made by perfect Alice and\u00a0a chilled glass of champagne.\u00a0 Fine china teacups and plates and tall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31,14],"tags":[61,62,60,159,59,28],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2zQgS-friends","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gollygoshcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}