{"id":245,"date":"2002-06-10T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2002-06-10T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T01:16:00","slug":"245","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million things I could be doing.  I can use this.  This short season of alone-ness, that is.  I just muddle things up when I go forcing the issue of making friends.  There is a difference between forcing the issue, and taking initiative and being friendly, to be sure, and I recognize this, but rather than sit on my behind all day, or feeling a slight panic of desperation like I <i>need<\/i> to have a friend <i>right now<\/i>, I can use my time more constructively.  Listen to me; I sound like my parents already&#8230;  Though I think that&#8217;s a good thing in a lot of circumstances.  I can be developing good habits, managing my finances, learning HTML, reading a book, writing letters, heck, just writing in here.  I will have friends soon enough if don&#8217;t isolate myself completely from the rest of the world, which I haven&#8217;t been doing anyway.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I think everyone should try Publix Premium brand mint chocolate chip ice cream.  Goodness, this is yummy.<\/p>\n<p>And my car needs a new clutch master cylinder&#8230;  It was piddling hydraulic fluid all over my foot as I was driving home.  *sigh*  Well, there go a couple of hours tomorrow evening&#8230;  Argh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a million things I could be doing. I can use this. This short season of alone-ness, that is. I just muddle things up when I go forcing the issue of making friends. There is a difference between forcing the issue, and taking initiative and being friendly, to be sure, and I recognize this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}