{"id":233,"date":"2011-07-23T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vickihamilton.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-07-23T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:56:26","slug":"open-letter-to-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/2011\/07\/23\/open-letter-to-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to My Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To respect your privacy, I&#8217;m not naming you. But I want you to know this:<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to read this and that you are having a hard time right now and that you don&#8217;t think you have any friends. I do want to say that to have a good friend you have to BE a good friend. <\/p>\n<p>A good friend is not someone that you lie to, steal from and only talk to when you want something. It&#8217;s a two way street. And there is a huge difference between being a friend who has your best interest at heart and being an ENABLER, even if you don&#8217;t realize it at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Until you get serious help and beat your drug problem, you will never know who your real friends are &#8211; they are all just people for you to exploit. <\/p>\n<p>I hope you take this to heart and get help from professionals &#8211; not the &#8220;help&#8221; from your sucker list that you just want to exploit. <\/p>\n<p>Some of your friends want to help you in the true sense and see you happy and productive, and yet all you do is break their heart.<\/p>\n<p>When you are ready to accept real help from a real friend, call me and I will come get you. We will figure something out together. You do have real friends and I want you to know that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To respect your privacy, I&#8217;m not naming you. But I want you to know this: Sorry to read this and that you are having a hard time right now and that you don&#8217;t think you have any friends. I do want to say that to have a good friend you have to BE a good &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/2011\/07\/23\/open-letter-to-my-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Letter to My Friend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/vickihampton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}