{"id":483,"date":"2008-10-21T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:49:20","slug":"the-lost-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/the-lost-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can friendship be rekindled ?<\/p>\n<p>The last time I saw them was 12 years ago. If it wasn&#8217;t for that day, we would never cross path again. Time has been very kind, for they looked exactly the same the day I bid them farewell. That very moment on that special day, we gathered and laughed like teens, just as we often do, just like we&#8217;ve never been apart. Then, we say our last words to each other, and never be heard again until the next special day came again.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure if that bond is call friendship. One, that can be absent in your life for more than a decade and the light reappears just like that. Just when I have bleak hope, when darkness falls, the Almighty sends me small reminders that the light can be reignited. Just a spark and oxygen in the air will do the rest.<\/p>\n<p>This post is dedicated to the light in my life, my dear friends. For only you,  took notice of my absence, a friend who remembered me as a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can friendship be rekindled ? The last time I saw them was 12 years ago. If it wasn&#8217;t for that day, we would never cross path again. Time has been very kind, for they looked exactly the same the day I bid them farewell. That very moment on that special day, we gathered and laughed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-thoughts","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}