{"id":50,"date":"2015-06-07T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/?p=50"},"modified":"2015-06-07T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T21:20:15","slug":"friends-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/2015\/06\/07\/friends-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting how fast friendships form and dissolve. Much easier to end a friendship than start one but I find I make more friends than I lose. So far I\u2019ve made a few good friends\u2014 friends whom I\u2019m sure will remain my friends for a long time. I have lost a friend as well but considering we were really only friends for a few days I don\u2019t mind so much. Of course I apologized and was forgiven but in the beginning friendships are so fragile that they aren\u2019t easily mended once broken. At least she was American. I should hate to lose those Irish and foreign friends I\u2019ve made so far.<\/p>\n<p>The way I see it people are like particles, bouncing around the world. Some never achieve enough velocity to escape the place that they were born. Some are so energetic that they cannot remain in in place. Some particles attract each and others repel one another. Some particles, separated by time and circumstance, never cross paths. That is why one should value the unlikely friends, the rare and the beautiful souls who you might never have met if circumstances were different. Besides, though all people are different those who share a country are more alike than not. Surrounding yourself with reflections of your own thoughts and views does nothing to grow the soul. It only makes it rigid and inflexible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting how fast friendships form and dissolve. Much easier to end a friendship than start one but I find I make more friends than I lose. So far I\u2019ve made a few good friends\u2014 friends whom I\u2019m sure will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/2015\/06\/07\/friends-abroad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/dublin-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}