{"id":17208,"date":"2011-11-06T12:58:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=17208"},"modified":"2011-11-06T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T17:58:05","slug":"a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"A friend&#8217;s girlfriend has blocked me on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier about how\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=17193\">instead of blocking someone, let me overcome my desire to block them<\/a>. \u00a0 A good friend, a platonic spiritual brother, has a non-local girlfriend who \u00a0friended me on Facebook this year. \u00a0Shortly after I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16653\">My two cents about working toward being together<\/a>, she blocked me. \u00a0 In essence, I said (relative to her) &#8220;If the two of you have made an agreement about when to be together, work toward it. \u00a0 Whoever is not working toward it has a different agenda. &#8221; \u00a0Am I irked that she blocked me? \u00a0 Obviously since I&#8217;m writing this. \u00a0And yes, it&#8217;s none of my business, no matter how much I want to protect a pal. \u00a0But is my ego disappointed that she won&#8217;t see the sometimes snarky comments I make on her man&#8217;s wall? \u00a0Or am I just insensitive that, for whatever reason, her seeing my name and my comments do not give her a good feeling and she doesn&#8217;t want to deal with it right now? \u00a0<em>That&#8217;s when I block someone, so why not her, too? <\/em><em>And me, <\/em><em>a<\/em>re my snarky comments more designed to encourage her to come join \u00a0her beloved? \u00a0Or to make her feel insecure by being openly flirtatious about him? \u00a0Forget her agenda,<em> what&#8217;s my agenda? <\/em> I either want for my friends what they want for themselves, or I don&#8217;t. \u00a0 Boy, have I got some <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=10926\">work to do on myself.<\/a> In the meantime, let me see if I can just shut up now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=A friend&#8217;s girlfriend has blocked me on Facebook&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=A%20friend&#8217;s%20girlfriend%20has%20blocked%20me%20on%20Facebook&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-friends-girlfriend-has-blocked-me-on-facebook\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier about how\u00a0instead of blocking someone, let me overcome my desire to block them. \u00a0 A good friend, a platonic spiritual brother, has a non-local girlfriend who \u00a0friended me on Facebook this year. \u00a0Shortly after I wrote My two cents about working toward being together, she blocked me. \u00a0 In essence, I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17217,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208\/revisions\/17217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}