{"id":132,"date":"2005-09-11T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2005-09-11T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T22:18:00","slug":"friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/friends\/","title":{"rendered":"friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a rough week.  Not nearly as rough as many folks in this country right now, but I&#8217;m really taking in all of the awful stuff that is happening and spending, oh, I&#8217;d say, PLENTY of time crying about all of it, particularly today.  So I&#8217;d like to take a moment and just be thankful for what I have.  And what I have are some pretty damn incredible friends.  I don&#8217;t have pictures of all of the people in my life who have become my family even though they weren&#8217;t born a Williams, and I&#8217;d like to dedicate this blog to all of them.<\/p>\n<p>my dearest life-long friend Anastasia&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/meana-798747.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/meana-798235.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>my beautiful friend Hayley, of many years, many moves, many travels&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/mehayley-797055.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/mehayley-796420.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>my wonderful friends Elizabeth and Matty, who remind me that someday it just might happen for me too&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/lizmatty-701195.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/lizmatty-700651.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>the ever-lovely, ever-funny, ever-sweet Mollie&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/molls-797727.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/molls-797399.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the Golden Boy of the west coast, my friend Jon, the 9\/11 birthday boy, and the most generous man you&#8217;ll ever meet&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/jonchamps-750401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlwms.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/jonchamps-749760.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and to Rachel, and Juan, and Ian S., and Carolyn, and Kellie, and the rest of you, even though you may never find nor read this blog- thank you all for joining my life and adding to my already huge and perfect family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a rough week. Not nearly as rough as many folks in this country right now, but I&#8217;m really taking in all of the awful stuff that is happening and spending, oh, I&#8217;d say, PLENTY of time crying about all of it, particularly today. So I&#8217;d like to take a moment and just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}