{"id":121,"date":"2007-11-11T22:15:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-11-11T22:15:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:15:40","slug":"weekend-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em><strong>Those truly linked don&#8217;t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ \u00a0Deng Ming-Dau\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/warrior.jpg\" alt=\"Wiesbaden Warriors\" height=\"120\" style=\"width: 118px; height: 120px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night my husband and I attended a great reunion for former <strong>Wiesbaden Warriors<\/strong>.\u00a0 My friend Brian\u00a0organized\u00a0the dinner\u00a0held\u00a0at an authentic German restaurant in DC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-europe.com\/index.html\">Old Europe<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0I attended middle school and high school in Wiesbaden, Germany (was there from the 7th through 11th grades).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This was such a rare opportunity for fellow classmates to get together.\u00a0 In fact I saw one of my best friends that I had not seen in 13 years&#8230;.she flew in all the way from Houston.\u00a0 \u00a0 And I even reconnected with a friend I had not seen in 20 years!\u00a0 It was a great night of sharing stories and memories with fellow Warriors (from the class of &#8217;67 on).\u00a0\u00a0Although we may\u00a0not have all known\u00a0each other back then, we share such strong collective experiences that it felt like we were all old friends.<\/p>\n<p>And that friend that\u00a0I had not seen in 20 years, well she just so happens to be a big Indie fan too!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It turns out\u00a0she lives less than a half hour away, and enjoys many of the same things:\u00a0\u00a0 lampwork beads (she sounds just as addicted as I am), and shopping on Etsy.com.\u00a0 We&#8217;re long lost friends reunited in the world of the Handcrafted.\u00a0 You can visit her Esty shop here:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sassygraceboutique.etsy.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sassygraceboutique.etsy.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go Warriors! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those truly linked don&#8217;t need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever. ~ \u00a0Deng Ming-Dau\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night my husband and I attended a great reunion for former Wiesbaden Warriors.\u00a0 My friend Brian\u00a0organized\u00a0the dinner\u00a0held\u00a0at an authentic German restaurant in DC, Old Europe.\u00a0 \u00a0I attended middle school and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-artists","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}