{"id":5201,"date":"2013-11-03T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2018-08-03T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T06:54:08","slug":"sunday-november-3-2013-i-no-doubt-deserved-my-enemies-but-i-dont-believe-i-deserved-my-friends-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, November 3, 2013 \u2014 \u201cI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don\u2019t believe I deserved my friends.\u201d \u2014 Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I don\u2019t put much of my pri\u00advate social life into this site, but in this case \u201ca pic\u00adture is worth a thou\u00adsand words.\u201d&nbsp;I have been friends with Fil\u00adip Marek for a quar\u00adter of a cen\u00adtu\u00adry.&nbsp;Despite our liv\u00ading on dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adti\u00adnents, we have man\u00adaged to see each oth\u00ader fair\u00adly often \u2014 most recent\u00adly in Spain.&nbsp;We first came to know each oth\u00ader through Filip\u2019s involve\u00adment in the Czech Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion, and the friend\u00adship was sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly built up from a series of shared adven\u00adtures (in places as dis\u00adparate as Crete and the shores of the Arc\u00adtic Ocean) and shared intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal inter\u00adests.&nbsp;We make a rather Cer\u00advan\u00adtean team.&nbsp;I am a lit\u00adtle man, while Fil\u00adip is a tall, mus\u00adcu\u00adlar giant.&nbsp;This pic\u00adture, recent\u00adly tak\u00aden* in the sort of place Fil\u00adip can often be found, is so evoca\u00adtive that I could not resist putting it up&nbsp;here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Filip-Marek-Oct-2013-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5202\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Filip-Marek-Oct-2013-1.jpg\" alt=\"Filip Marek Oct 2013-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Filip-Marek-Oct-2013-1.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Filip-Marek-Oct-2013-1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>*Fil\u00adip has just informed me that it was tak\u00aden two days ago, in Switzerland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t put much of my pri\u00advate social life into this site, but in this case \u201ca pic\u00adture is worth a thou\u00adsand words.\u201d&nbsp;I have been friends with Fil\u00adip Marek for a quar\u00adter of a cen\u00adtu\u00adry.&nbsp;Despite our liv\u00ading on dif\u00adfer\u00adent continents,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5201\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-an-blog-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}