{"id":11901,"date":"2017-07-03T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=11901"},"modified":"2017-07-07T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:39:07","slug":"meeting-saba-after-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/07\/03\/meeting-saba-after-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"meeting saba after decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>met my friend saba in NJ, after decades. we used to live in islamabad a long time ago &#8211; took part in debates together, wrote in the youth section of a newspaper, and later got MBAs. saba is a lawyer now, i&#8217;m an independent filmmaker, and some of our kids are already done with college. such a pleasure to reconnect with friends, here on the other side of the planet, at a completely different stage in our lives. saba, u haven&#8217;t changed one bit \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"959\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2235.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2235-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2235-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_2235-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>met my friend saba in NJ, after decades. we used to live in islamabad a long time ago &#8211; took part in debates together, wrote in the youth section of a newspaper, and later got MBAs. saba is a lawyer now, i&#8217;m an independent filmmaker, and some of our kids are already done with college. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2017\/07\/03\/meeting-saba-after-decades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">meeting saba after decades<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11903,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11901\/revisions\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}