{"id":667,"date":"2014-11-08T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2014-12-11T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:23:37","slug":"missing-val","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Missing Val"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-682\" src=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image1-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/griffinweddingplusval.tiff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-674 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/griffinweddingplusval.tiff\" alt=\"griffinweddingplusval\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/griffinweddingplusval-copy.tiff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-668\" src=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/griffinweddingplusval-copy.tiff\" alt=\"griffinweddingplusval copy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of my best friend, Valarie Miller. That means that I have experienced the sadness of November 8th several times already, but somehow, today is particularly tough. Maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the number 5. I don&#8217;t know. Maybe it is because it finally hit me that I will never have another best friend like her. Maybe I had hope that I could-I feel like I&#8217;ve been unknowingly interviewing women friends to take Valarie&#8217;s place in my life. No one really can though. She got me. I got her. We left nothing out. Every topic was fair game. And on that topic, there were no games. Just an honest friendship. I knew she was there for me whenever I needed her. We didn&#8217;t have to talk every day or even see each other every week, but she was my person. Of all the women I have known, I probably never would have thought that she would be the friend I would be the closest to. We weren&#8217;t that similar. We had different likes and dislikes. Different backgrounds. For god&#8217;s sake she was a republican!<\/p>\n<p>Today, I just miss her so much that it hurts. I miss having a friend that listens as well and shares as much as Val did. It makes me feel so lonely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/griffinweddingplusval.tiff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/griffinweddingplusval.tiff\" alt=\"griffinweddingplusval\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the fifth anniversary of the death of my best friend, Valarie Miller. That means that I have experienced the sadness of November 8th several times already, but somehow, today is particularly tough. Maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the number 5. I don&#8217;t know. Maybe it is because it finally hit me that I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherearetherogers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}