{"id":858,"date":"2021-06-05T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=858"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T16:56:02","slug":"imaginary-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/06\/05\/imaginary-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Imaginary Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n

You think you\u2019ve
\noutgrown having
\nimaginary friends.
\nBut you haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just that
\nthe ones you had
\nas a child were
\nmuch better friends
\nthan the ones
\nyou have now.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t tell you
\nhow lazy you were or
\nthat you were ugly or
\nuntalented.<\/p>\n

They taught you
\nto play and
\npaint with your fingers
\nand talk back to
\nyour parents
\nwhen necessary.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not too late
\nto make some new
\nimaginary friends,<\/p>\n

or even just one
\nwho will say to you,<\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be fun
\nto sit down and
\nwrite about
\ngrownups having
\nimaginary friends?\u201d<\/p>\n

(Photo by Roberto Nickson, UnSplash.com)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Imaginary Friends You think you\u2019ve outgrown having imaginary friends. But you haven\u2019t. It\u2019s just that the ones you had as a child were much better friends than the ones you have now. They didn\u2019t tell you how lazy you were or that you were ugly or untalented. They taught you to play and paint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t