{"id":1281,"date":"2003-12-24T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funkypancake.com\/blog-wp-temp\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2003-12-24T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T20:10:10","slug":"absent_friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funkypancake.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/absent_friends\/","title":{"rendered":"absent friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we have some friends who seem to cancel at the last minute everytime we go to visit them.  they have some good excuses, but i suspect they simply just don&#8217;t like us.<br \/>\nin order to break the cycle of not seeing them, they invited themselves to some other friends&#8217; house so we could all meet up near where we live.  unfortunately they cancelled (surprise surprise) but it was ok because we could eat more of the fantastic lunch provided by our host Tanya.<br \/>\nesther and catherine with the shepherds pie and profitable rolls<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC09136.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.funkypancake.com\/blog\/archives\/DSC09136.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"2\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC09142.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.funkypancake.com\/blog\/archives\/DSC09142.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC09144.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.funkypancake.com\/blog\/archives\/DSC09144.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"2\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC09146.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.funkypancake.com\/blog\/archives\/DSC09146.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"2\" \/><br \/>\nIt was also the first opportunity to have some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funkypancake.com\/blog\/archives\/001970.html\">crackers<\/a>.  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