{"id":10,"date":"2007-10-03T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daysong.com\/frenzy\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-10-03T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T02:56:28","slug":"southern-real-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Southern (Real) Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daysong.com\/frenzy\/friends.jpg\" title=\"Girlfriends\" alt=\"Girlfriends\" border=\"0\" height=\"361\" width=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have run across this several times and find the sentiments to be so true. I personally don&#8217;t think it applies just to &#8220;southern&#8221; friends but to all real friends in any location. I believe that if you have even one friend like this, you have truly been blessed!<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Never ask for food.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Always bring the food. And lots of It.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Will say \u201chello\u201d.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike> <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Will give you a big hug and a kiss. More than one.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Call your parents Mom and Dad, and hug and kiss them hello too.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Cry with you; and for you.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Will eat at your dinner table and leave.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Will spend hours there, talking, laughing, and just being together. Then do the dishes before leaving.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Could write a book with direct quotes from you. And most of the time know you better than you do yourself.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that\u2019s what the crowd is doing.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Will kick the back-ends of the whole crowd that left you. Then walk beside you in the front of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Walk right in and say, \u201cI\u2019m home!\u201d If you are not home they will wait.<\/p>\n<p>FRIENDS: Are for a while.<br \/>\n<strike> SOUTHERN<\/strike>  <font color=\"#800080\">REAL FRIENDS<\/font>: Are for life. And then some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have run across this several times and find the sentiments to be so true. I personally don&#8217;t think it applies just to &#8220;southern&#8221; friends but to all real friends in any location. I believe that if you have even one friend like this, you have truly been blessed! FRIENDS: Never ask for food. SOUTHERN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}