{"id":1451,"date":"2018-03-22T21:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T13:19:50","slug":"making-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/making-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Making friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, we had guest to come to our place. The children had good times, they played together and had such fun. My wife served a wonderful lunch for 8 people. I didn&#8217;t manage to take any picture to capture the event. I quite regretted for not taking the picture. At one point I wanted to take a picture, then I saw the glance from the girl that she didn&#8217;t want to be in the picture, or a questioning look, why? Then I didn&#8217;t take the shoot. Should have been more bold to ask their permission for a picture.<\/p>\n<p>Yet on the same time, the question why a picture? Is it for my glory? That I opened my house and invited people for lunch? Or to thank my wife&#8217;s hospitality and kind heart?<\/p>\n<p>One question that stuck in my mind is about making friends, how one cross the barriers and making friends. If I look back, it was the children that making the most number of friends. And I probably making the least of it.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, please help us to have genuine friendship here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, we had guest to come to our place. The children had good times, they played together and had such fun. My wife served a wonderful lunch for 8 people. I didn&#8217;t manage to take any picture to capture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/making-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,168,202,224],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children","tag-friendship","tag-hospitality","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":763,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/friends-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":0},"title":"Friends for","author":"clay","date":"May 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I can't wait it any longer. 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