{"id":561,"date":"2004-05-25T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2004-05-25T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T20:21:48","slug":"what-friends-are-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"What friends are for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Julie talks about &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.julieleung.com\/archives\/001010.html\">What friends are for<\/A>&#8221; and I am forced to think about how important it has been that our friends truely are those friends that you could call in the middle of the night for help.&nbsp; But it also makes me think about how often you can rely on those friends before they get tired of helping.&nbsp; We all have a limited amount of time and energy and at some point&nbsp;I think that you can wear out your friendships.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t afford to wear out those friendships because without them I don&#8217;t think I could make it from day to day.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m trying to see if I can do more by myself this summer and already it is wearing me down.&nbsp; I&#8217;m hoping for a second wind once I get used to the shift in my schedule.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Julie also talks about &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.julieleung.com\/archives\/000668.html\">The sexiest man alive<\/A>&#8221; who is the man who does some house work.&nbsp; I&#8217;m constantly doing the dishes, hanging up towels, picking up after the kids, washing the floor to get that sticky goo up.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been known to operate a mean Bernina as I mend clothes, or help my daughter make a new shoulder bag.&nbsp; And I do laundry too!&nbsp; The problem is I don&#8217;t have that wife there to think about me that way, and to make me feel that way.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie talks about &#8220;What friends are for&#8221; and I am forced to think about how important it has been that our friends truely are those friends that you could call in the middle of the night for help.&nbsp; But it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}