{"id":647,"date":"2007-08-24T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2007\/08\/24\/cause-you-gotta-have-friends\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T22:20:14","slug":"cause-you-gotta-have-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cause you gotta have friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In browsing through some old photos that we&#8217;ve had scanned, I find that:<\/p>\n<p>1- I do know how to have fun. Lots of it, if the photos are any indication.<\/p>\n<p>2- I have the greatest girlfriends ever.<\/p>\n<p>See for yourself.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Paige2\/File7445.thumb.jpg\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Paige2\/File7443.thumb.jpg\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Paige2\/File7449.thumb.jpg\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Paige2\/File7450.thumb.jpg\" \/>    <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"642\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Paige2\/File7586.sized.jpg\" \/>  These ladies have been my friends for over 30 years, some of them.  That&#8217;s a collective friendship over over 100 years!<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s not forget these beauties,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"636\" height=\"441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/Paige2\/File7590.sized.jpg\" \/> who have also been friends since elementary and junior high school.  These are the friends who shaped my life.  So, if you think I&#8217;m a weirdo, it&#8217;s probably their fault.  And we are STILL friends!  Who does that?  Who keeps in touch with friends from that long ago.  Well, we do.  We don&#8217;t see each other every day or anything, but we do still try.<\/p>\n<p>I have had and still do have many wonderful friends.  To my friends, I salute you and I thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In browsing through some old photos that we&#8217;ve had scanned, I find that: 1- I do know how to have fun. Lots of it, if the photos are any indication. 2- I have the greatest girlfriends ever. See for yourself. These ladies have been my friends for over 30 years, some of them. That&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}