{"id":1634,"date":"2013-05-26T00:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2013-05-26T00:24:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:24:26","slug":"to-absent-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2013\/05\/26\/to-absent-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"To Absent Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of my wedding:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind that you couldn&#8217;t come. I do mind that you couldn&#8217;t tell me that you couldn&#8217;t or wouldn&#8217;t come. I understand if you had previous plans that you couldn&#8217;t (or wouldn&#8217;t) cancel, but to not even be able to bother to tell me that you wouldn&#8217;t be able to come to my wedding was a real kick in the balls. I did think that we had a slightly better relationship than that, though I suppose the lack of regular interaction killed that. I wouldn&#8217;t have minded even the simple, &#8216;No, I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t come.&#8217; But to just ignore me entirely, even after receiving a &#8216;save the date&#8217; and an invitation in the mail and reminders over electronic media, <em>which I know you read because the read receipt told me that you read them,<\/em> was beyond rude. So, I suppose we are at an end. And I mourn that loss, even as I begin the next chapter in my life. I&#8217;ll miss you tomorrow, but it&#8217;s time to move on.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of my wedding: &#8220;I don&#8217;t mind that you couldn&#8217;t come. I do mind that you couldn&#8217;t tell me that you couldn&#8217;t or wouldn&#8217;t come. I understand if you had previous plans that you couldn&#8217;t (or wouldn&#8217;t) cancel, but to not even be able to bother to tell me that you wouldn&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-etiquette","category-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}