{"id":1691,"date":"2015-11-23T19:34:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2015-11-23T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:34:25","slug":"giving-thanks-for-good-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2015\/11\/giving-thanks-for-good-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks for Good Friendships!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Betty is arriving tomorrow for a five day visit. She is an American woman I met while studying Hebrew in Israel in the late 60s. Haven\u2019t seen her since 1974, following the Cyprus War. It\u2019s exciting to know we can share those &#8220;Remember when?&#8221; moments and celebrate being together.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure she will recognize me when we meet at the Montevideo port tomorrow morning. Perhaps a &#8220;Welcome Betty!&#8221; sign will jar her memory. There aren&#8217;t many woman named Betty in South America.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1693\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1693\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/images.png\" alt=\"Welcome BettyQ\" width=\"160\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/images.png 160w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/images-152x300.png 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome Betty!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Take a moment and give thanks for your good, long-lasting friendships! Mine inspire me. I am blessed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Betty is arriving tomorrow for a five day visit. She is an American woman I met while studying Hebrew in Israel in the late 60s. Haven\u2019t seen her since 1974, following the Cyprus War. It\u2019s exciting to know we can share those &#8220;Remember when?&#8221; moments and celebrate being together. Not sure she will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2015\/11\/giving-thanks-for-good-friendships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giving Thanks for Good Friendships!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,15,26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-inspirational","category-israel","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}