{"id":20575,"date":"2022-10-24T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=20575"},"modified":"2022-10-24T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:09:07","slug":"will-long-separated-best-friend-meets-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/24\/will-long-separated-best-friend-meets-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Will long separated best friend meets again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw102122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw102122.jpg\" alt=\"Will long separated best friend meets again? I miss them\" class=\"wp-image-20572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw102122.jpg 316w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw102122-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aw102122-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Will long separated best friend meets again? I miss them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The best thing you can do for an old friend is to take the first step to making the meeting possible. Perhaps on parting you felt what this poem by Du Fu, a Chinese poet, expresses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Toast for Men Yun-Ch\u2019ing <br> BY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/tu-fu\">DU FU<\/a> <br>TRANSLATED BY FLORENCE AYSCOUGH <br>Illimitable happiness,<br>But grief for our white heads.<br>We love the long watches of the night, the red candle.<br>It would be difficult to have too much of meeting,<br>Let us not be in hurry to talk of separation.<br>But because the Heaven River will sink,<br>We had better empty the wine-cups.<br>To-morrow, at bright dawn, the world\u2019s business will entangle us.<br>We brush away our tears,<br>We go\u2014East and West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best thing you can do for an old friend is to take the first step to making the meeting possible. Perhaps on parting you felt what this poem by Du Fu, a Chinese poet, expresses: A Toast for Men Yun-Ch\u2019ing BY DU FU TRANSLATED BY FLORENCE AYSCOUGH Illimitable happiness,But grief for our white heads.We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/10\/24\/will-long-separated-best-friend-meets-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will long separated best friend meets again?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20577,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions\/20577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}