{"id":36,"date":"2012-01-27T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-01-27T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T00:07:49","slug":"xl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"XL"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve known XL for years, and he’s changed more in the last 6 months than in the last 5 years. <\/p>\n

Always a bit of a ‘black sheep’, most of my friends have stuck by him. That’s good. But what struck us by surprise is his increasing disconnect with his parents. <\/p>\n

Now, most Asians consider family as a fairly important entity, a bit more so than Western culture. <\/p>\n

So XL recently said that he wanted to change his name to cut ties, in a lasting sense, with his family. Rightly so, I think he’s out of his mind. <\/p>\n

He’s built up a lot of rage and anger recently, I think he’ll be in the dumps soon. If I get a chance to talk to him soon, I know I can’t change his mindset, but I hope I can give him a big picture perspective of what he intends to do. <\/p>\n

See, I do have a heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve known XL for years, and he’s changed more in the last 6 months than in the last 5 years. Always a bit of a ‘black sheep’, most of my friends have stuck by him. That’s good. But what struck us by surprise is his increasing disconnect with his parents. Now, most Asians consider family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}