{"id":11933,"date":"2012-06-21T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2012-06-21T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:53:37","slug":"few-true-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/06\/few-true-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Few True Friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11934\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/119.jpg?resize=224%2C108\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/119.jpg?w=280&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/119.jpg?resize=96%2C46&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend lists<br \/>\n&#8216;the few true friends&#8217; he has so far<br \/>\nin his Facebook status.<\/p>\n<p>Am not listed,<br \/>\nwhich is natural,<br \/>\nas I don&#8217;t know him well.<\/p>\n<p>He might be dividing his friends<br \/>\nwith such a comment.<br \/>\nWhat if some unlisted ones are true to him?<\/p>\n<p>Better to silently<br \/>\nbe a truer friend to all,<br \/>\nthan to announce who is true to one?<\/p>\n<p>Better to privately<br \/>\nexpress appreciation<br \/>\nto the appreciated?<\/p>\n<p>Better to cultivate equanimity<br \/>\nthan to possibly stir up<br \/>\nattachment versus aversion?<\/p>\n<p>Better to not hurt anyone<br \/>\nand end up having less friends<br \/>\nwho were already quite true?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend lists &#8216;the few true friends&#8217; he has so far in his Facebook status. Am not listed, which is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[129,116],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-equanimity","tag-friendship","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}