{"id":215,"date":"2025-08-10T15:34:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=215"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:34:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:34:45","slug":"family-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Family and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Family and Friends\u2764\ufe0f<br>I have been with a few of my good friends this week. One of them, I haven\u2019t properly caught up with for two decades. Yesterday, we were at our friends\u2019 daughter\u2019s wedding and our son was a groomsman. It was a beautiful wedding. <br>This week has highlighted something for me: Family and true Friends are precious. <br>Value them and make them a priority over work, hobbies and, dare I say it, church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, if we don\u2019t, we may one day find ourselves with nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/att.8buegQUq13bwKD5gpjX22w7crrGhT6vqlcsS1xuDGQo-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/att.8buegQUq13bwKD5gpjX22w7crrGhT6vqlcsS1xuDGQo-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/att.8buegQUq13bwKD5gpjX22w7crrGhT6vqlcsS1xuDGQo-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/att.8buegQUq13bwKD5gpjX22w7crrGhT6vqlcsS1xuDGQo-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/att.8buegQUq13bwKD5gpjX22w7crrGhT6vqlcsS1xuDGQo.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family and Friends\u2764\ufe0fI have been with a few of my good friends this week. One of them, I haven\u2019t properly caught up with for two decades. Yesterday, we were at our friends\u2019 daughter\u2019s wedding and our son was a groomsman. It was a beautiful wedding. This week has highlighted something for me: Family and true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}