{"id":6081,"date":"2011-01-29T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2011-01-29T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:23:35","slug":"30-days-of-truth-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/6081","title":{"rendered":"30 Days of Truth: Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Day9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Day9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Day9_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Day9\" width=\"595\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One person I never wanted to lose touch with but somehow did was a friend of mine who used to live here in NL.\u00a0 I met her years ago when she was living here with her husband, she was really new here and she hated it with a passion.\u00a0 Her husband was only here on a two year contract and I hoped that she\u2019d come around and they\u2019d decide to stay when the two years was up, but I wasn\u2019t so lucky.<\/p>\n<p>We got to be quite good friends over those two years, so I was heartbroken when her family left to go back to the UK.\u00a0 We did keep in touch in the beginning when she went back but eventually it tapered off.\u00a0 She went through a rough period after their return, she had a second pregnancy and I believe her son was ill, and then her father died.\u00a0 She was really down and difficult to get a hold of.<\/p>\n<p>After a while I got tired of contacting her with no responses, even though I\u2019ll still send a message out through Facebook just in case.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019ll pick up contact again someday but probably not.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s expat life\u2026 people come and go and sometimes you lose touch. \u00a0It&#8217;s one of my least favorite bits&#8230; it gets difficult having friends leave all the time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve decided that none of my current friends are ever allowed to leave. \u00a0I&#8217;ve not told them yet but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person I never wanted to lose touch with but somehow did was a friend of mine who used to live here in NL.\u00a0 I met her years ago when she was living here with her husband, she was really new here and she hated it with a passion.\u00a0 Her husband was only here on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[553,35],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-memory-lane","category-randoms","tag-30-days-of-truth","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6084,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}