{"id":40931,"date":"2013-04-23T08:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40931"},"modified":"2015-06-02T08:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:12:49","slug":"it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"It used to be hard for me to say No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today a friend told me they\u2019d be in town this week and I hastily invited them to stay overnight. Almost immediately I began to feel trapped even though it\u2019d be only one day, and I know them and we get along well. I called back an hour later and they were fine with the cancellation. Sometimes I just like being alone when I have the time to myself: I have so many topics awaiting thought time, I like the silence when I can nab it. That\u2019s what\u2019s great about Facebook. I can read friends\u2019 posts and keep up with them, in the silence. I am glad to have understanding friends. Even if I commit to something, as soon as it begins to feel not right, I cut the cord so I don\u2019t leave the other party hanging. \u00a0That\u2019s how friends stay friends for a lifetime.<\/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=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=It used to be hard for me to say No&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no\/\" 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=It%20used%20to%20be%20hard%20for%20me%20to%20say%20No&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/it-used-to-be-hard-for-me-to-say-no\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today a friend told me they\u2019d be in town this week and I hastily invited them to stay overnight. Almost immediately I began to feel trapped even though it\u2019d be only one day, and I know them and we get along well. I called back an hour later and they were fine with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40932,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40931\/revisions\/40932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}