{"id":33445,"date":"2022-04-26T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/?p=33445"},"modified":"2022-04-26T02:55:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:55:02","slug":"friendship-isnt-a-freebie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/2022\/04\/26\/friendship-isnt-a-freebie\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Isn’t a Freebie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Friendship isn’t a freebie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not a giveaway or a winning lottery ticket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship is something you work at and sacrifice for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s something that you commit to and invest in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like listening (like really listening). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like giving the benefit of the doubt even when you’re spitting mad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like showing up when things are hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like serving (with a meal, taking the kids, or doing the dishes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like being reliable and following through on plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like loving each other’s kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like pursuing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like taking the time to call and text just to say “I’m thinking of you”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like forgiving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship looks like diving into the hard stuff and being vulnerable even when it’s scary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship isn’t something that happens by accident or magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendship is the fruit of loving each other well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jess<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Credit: Richard James<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you loved this you will love mine and Amy Weatherly’s new book I’ll Be There (But I’ll Be Wearing Sweatpants). https:\/\/amzn.to\/37yEMGu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friendship isn’t a freebie. It’s not a giveaway or a winning lottery ticket. Friendship is something you work at and sacrifice for. It’s something that you commit to and invest in. Friendship looks like listening (like really listening). Friendship looks like giving the benefit of the doubt even when you’re spitting mad. Friendship looks like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/richard-jaimes-k4dT8x2-gI-unsplash-e1650941679188.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6wz1w-8Hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33448,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33445\/revisions\/33448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonderoak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}