{"id":2277,"date":"2014-05-13T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2014-05-13T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T07:25:53","slug":"farewell-to-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/farewell-to-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ramona-and-Cindy.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2278\" alt=\"Ramona and Cindy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ramona-and-Cindy.jpg?resize=301%2C401&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"301\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ramona-and-Cindy.jpg?w=301&amp;ssl=1 301w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Ramona-and-Cindy.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a>This is me with my new sister Ramona. \u00a0We met when we were looking to share a car to <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/life-and-death-on-the-coast-of-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mont-Saint-Michele<\/a> and she and her amazing husband decided to join us. \u00a0We have had the <em>best<\/em>\u00a0week. \u00a0Remarkable how quickly relationships form in a travel environment.<\/p>\n<p>Now she is returning to her home in Beirut with her husband to await a new grandchild due within days of ours. \u00a0We had a wonderful time with them. \u00a0Thanks my friend! \u00a0And send pictures.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere&#8217;s not a word yet, for old friends who&#8217;ve just met.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4427.Jim_Henson\">Jim Henson<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me with my new sister Ramona. \u00a0We met when we were looking to share a car to Mont-Saint-Michele and she and her amazing husband decided to join us. \u00a0We have had the best\u00a0week. \u00a0Remarkable how quickly relationships form in a travel environment. Now she is returning to her home in Beirut with her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/13\/farewell-to-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farewell to Friends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3,7,78,29],"tags":[1181,2646,2619,2679,2680,3419,44,2681],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-life","category-travel","category-women","tag-friendship","tag-mont-saint-michel","tag-seabourn-quest","tag-seabourne","tag-seabourne-cruise","tag-travel","tag-women-2","tag-womens-friendships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-AJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}