{"id":525,"date":"2019-10-06T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/?p=525"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T00:05:20","slug":"friends-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/2019\/10\/06\/friends-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_3637-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_3637-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_3637-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_3637-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Three of my friends! At the Beach Chalet in San Francisco. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophomore year of high school, I felt like I didn&#8217;t have friends. I started growing apart from my friends from middle school. I didn&#8217;t feel like I belonged there anymore, and I was really sad. I felt really alone. After months of feeling alone and disconnected, I met Leigh Ann (center) on the JV School Soccer team. Our first conversation was a debate on how to make the perfect grilled cheese, and for the first time in a while, I felt like I had a friend again. This is not to say I don&#8217;t like my old friends. I love them more than anything! But it was an important lesson for me to learn that it&#8217;s ok to leave friends if it&#8217;s what&#8217;s best for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore year of high school, I felt like I didn&#8217;t have friends. I started growing apart from my friends from middle school. I didn&#8217;t feel like I belonged there anymore, and I was really sad. I felt really alone. After months of feeling alone and disconnected, I met Leigh Ann (center) on the JV School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/2019\/10\/06\/friends-and-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friends and Family<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~ElenP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}