{"id":1524,"date":"2007-12-26T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2007-12-26T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T09:43:00","slug":"friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/104083654\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/43\/104083654_1105285aa4_m.jpg\" alt=\"bali 1\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">friends<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI have always considered the opposite of friend to be enemy. But in Sydney they think that it is acquaintance.<br \/>\n<!--more-->Here are some extracts from my dictionary:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">friend<br \/>\nnoun<br \/>\n1 a close friend companion, soul mate, intimate, confidante, confidant, familiar, alter ego, second self, playmate, playfellow, classmate, schoolmate, workmate; ally, associate; sister, brother; best friend, kindred spirit, bosom buddy, bosom friend; informal pal, chum, sidekick, crony, main man, mate, buddy, bud, amigo, compadre, homeboy, homegirl, homie; archaic compeer. <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">antonym enemy.<\/span><br \/>\nORIGIN Old English fr\u0113ond, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vriend and German Freund, from an Indo-European root meaning \u2018to love,\u2019 shared by free<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u2022 a person who is not an enemy or who is on the same side : she was unsure whether he was friend or foe.<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always considered the opposite of friend to be enemy. But in Sydney they think that it is acquaintance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[116,1257,1460],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-langauge-ramblings","tag-acquaintance","tag-enemy","tag-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}