{"id":2493,"date":"2008-08-19T08:42:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/entries\/a-tribute-to-my-friend\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T18:06:49","slug":"a-tribute-to-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/a-tribute-to-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to my Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s been my neighbor for five years. We had the chance to move to this property because she put in a word for us when this house became vacant, and we desperately needed to move. Peter&#8217;s family had known her family for many years, but I was still pretty new to his circle of friends and didn&#8217;t know anyone very well. We were friends immediately, and our kids have become friends as they&#8217;ve been born and grown up together. Each other&#8217;s yards, houses, and hearts are havens to the other. I wish I could say we&#8217;ll be neighbors forever, but they are fortunate to be building a house down the road that should be completed by next year. And I am so very thankful that God has allowed us this wonderful experience of living next door to each other on this property.<\/p>\n<p>For many months now she&#8217;s been struggling with her health as she was expecting her fourth baby. I had never seen anyone have such a hard time with a pregnancy, and yet her attitude and outlook were always faith borne and God~ward. Their fourth child was born on August 1 to an overjoyed family who welcomed him with such a celebration! He is a precious and amazing gift, and a miracle. I love you, my friend, and thank God for you!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[skyler]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7269ps-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7269ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[skyler]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7299ps-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7299ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[skyler]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7312ps-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7312ps-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[skyler]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7322ps2-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7322ps2-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[skyler]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7330ps2-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7330ps2-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[skyler]\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7331ps2-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/_dsc7331ps2-1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s been my neighbor for five years. We had the chance to move to this property because she put in a word for us when this house became vacant, and we desperately needed to move. Peter&#8217;s family had known her family for many years, but I was still pretty new to his circle of friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.streetpoet.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}