{"id":9730,"date":"2009-08-13T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2016-08-16T13:59:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T21:59:24","slug":"saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9730","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said goodbye to a great girl the other day. We won&#8217;t be seeing each other anymore.<\/p>\n<p>She said how much she enjoyed our time together. That she always looked forward to seeing me. That she would always remember me. That I was challenging and always pushing her boundaries but in the final analysis, I knew when to stop pushing. That she felt she could connect to the part of me that was vulnerable and open.<\/p>\n<p>People have been saying the same things to me since I was a kid. Many of my teachers said I was the most challenging kid they ever had. Shouldn&#8217;t I change? Shouldn&#8217;t I grow up? Why am I emotionally four years old?<\/p>\n<p>Jane emails: I am not crazy about this wild beard look. I was shocked when i saw you. I figured it&#8217;s a stage you are going through.<br \/>\nYou are such a good looking guy. why cover it all up? This is the time to<br \/>\nuse it before its all gone.<br \/>\nCould part of it be the need to look like you detractors? Stop trying to win<br \/>\nthem over. It will NEVER happen. They hate your talent, your guts and<br \/>\nmost of all your honesty. Tell them to drop dead and keep on your journey.<br \/>\nThey are like dogs they can sense your fear and then go straight to the<br \/>\njugular. Dear Luke they don&#8217;t own you. I hate to tell them but they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nown Judaism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said goodbye to a great girl the other day. We won&#8217;t be seeing each other anymore. She said how much she enjoyed our time together. That she always looked forward to seeing me. That she would always remember me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9730\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18447,17628],"class_list":["post-9730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-boundaries","tag-great-girl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103759,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions\/103759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}