{"id":319,"date":"2006-10-18T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2006\/10\/18\/a-friend-in-need-is-a-friend-indeed\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T21:20:00","slug":"a-friend-in-need-is-a-friend-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2006\/10\/18\/a-friend-in-need-is-a-friend-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falling ill while living abroad represents a huge responsibility. There&#8217;s no mother giving me hot <span style=\"font-style: italic\">agua de panela<\/span> with lime right before sleeping, no father coming to my room to ask me how I&#8217;m feeling, no Himura running to my fainted side on the front yard, covering me with a sweater and blocking the sun from my face. It&#8217;s up to me whether I can take enough care of myself, whether I can get better soon or not. As I feebly glance at the sunset from my dizzy bed, I feel the crushing weight of loneliness, the diametric distance which can only be breached through words\u2014and even words are not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, a friend shows up at my doorstep with bananas, vitamin C, and a few recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m such a lucky person.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so very much, <a href=\"http:\/\/joopishtea.blogspot.com\/\">Cora<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling ill while living abroad represents a huge responsibility. There&#8217;s no mother giving me hot agua de panela with lime right before sleeping, no father coming to my room to ask me how I&#8217;m feeling, no Himura running to my fainted side on the front yard, covering me with a sweater and blocking the sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}