{"id":261,"date":"2009-05-20T23:16:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T03:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2009-05-21T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:09:45","slug":"of-friends-and-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/of-friends-and-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Friends and Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-265\" title=\"tasker-llama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tasker-llama-lrg.jpg\" alt=\"tasker-llama\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tasker-llama-lrg.jpg 250w, https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tasker-llama-lrg-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>I&#8217;ve had a hard several days in a row,\u00a0 just the generic difficulties that sometimes comprise life. In their midst I find myself grateful for two members of my team who sit with me and talk through things at length, repeatedly, from different perspectives, over and over again, until we&#8217;ve got it worked out. Thanks Nola and Jay. What wonderful friends you are. I love you!<\/p>\n<p>And then, there is laughter. One of my friends from Texas sent me a somewhat sarcastic email today and it made me laugh. I noticed the laugh. And, I enjoyed it.\u00a0 And then when I got home from work as I pulled through the gate I looked up the hill into pasture #5 and there staring at me&#8230;nothing but\u00a0legs and ears was a new baby llama. And I laughed. And it felt good. If you&#8217;ve ever seen a new baby llama with a neck as long as its legs, and erect ears sticking straight up, wide-eyed with that &#8220;what&#8217;s that?&#8221; look, and a gait that indicates it doesn&#8217;t really know what to do with those long legs then you know why I laughed. It&#8217;s the goofiest, gangliest thing. It was fun to see, and it was fun to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 17:32 says &#8220;A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.&#8221; It made all the difference for me today.<\/p>\n<p>May you be blessed with laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a hard several days in a row,\u00a0 just the generic difficulties that sometimes comprise life. In their midst I find myself grateful for two members of my team who sit with me and talk through things at length, repeatedly, from different perspectives, over and over again, until we&#8217;ve got it worked out. Thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,40,39],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-difficulty","tag-friendship","tag-laughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}