{"id":15226,"date":"2018-05-25T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/?p=15226"},"modified":"2018-05-28T14:42:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T14:42:18","slug":"nikkos-barnes-friday-may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/25\/nikkos-barnes-friday-may-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikkos Barnes &#8211; Friday, May 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This is Abe.) The main thing to report about Friday is that I went to dinner with my friend Nick. I&#8217;ve known Nick almost 10 years. I met him in Chicago, and a few years ago he moved to Utah, about 10 minutes away.\u00a0 He is one of my very best friends and we keep in touch a lot. He&#8217;s had a hard life, and has struggled financially and with his career. He is crazy good at beat boxing, and he has a beautiful and kind heart.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been super down on his luck lately because he lost his job and also because of some other challenges he&#8217;s been dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the King Buffet near Smith&#8217;s just to hang out. It started out pretty somber, but lightened up once we got talking about Marvel movies and Star Wars. By the end, I think we both would agree that a good time was had, but Nick was still very discouraged.\u00a0 I was stuffed out of my mind, since I had dinner at home right before going to the King Buffet&#8230;Ugh, my diet has been sooooo bad lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This is Abe.) The main thing to report about Friday is that I went to dinner with my friend Nick. I&#8217;ve known Nick almost 10 years. I met him in Chicago, and a few years ago he moved to Utah, about 10 minutes away.\u00a0 He is one of my very best friends and we keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/25\/nikkos-barnes-friday-may-25\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nikkos Barnes &#8211; Friday, May 25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15226\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}