{"id":3363,"date":"2016-05-02T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/02\/why-my-friends-wish-me-happy-mothers-day-but-im-not-yet-a-mom\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:54:28","slug":"why-my-friends-wish-me-happy-mothers-day-but-im-not-yet-a-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/02\/why-my-friends-wish-me-happy-mothers-day-but-im-not-yet-a-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Why my friends wish me Happy Mother&#039;s Day but I&#039;m not yet a mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Http%3a%2f%2fi.blueprint.mashable.com%2fvddm0k22rwrtcigmh3atey3ga_y%3d%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f70579%2fmom-friend\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/6vSV7zHpaWZporDJSO8dOwAYLts=\/575x323\/http%3A%2F%2Fi.blueprint.mashable.com%2FvdDm0k22RwRTCIgMh3atEy3GA_Y%3D%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F70579%2FMom-Friend.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Why+my+friends+wish+me+Happy+Mother%27s+Day+but+I%27m+not+yet+a+mom&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F02%2Fi-am-the-mom-friend%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F02%2Fi-am-the-mom-friend%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">From a very early age I knew I wanted to be two things in life: Oprah and a mommy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I am my group&#8217;s &#8220;Mom Friend.&#8221; I to protect, love and inspire my friends. I am the one who reminds us what temperature it&#8217;s going to be when we go out; I ask how their midterm studies are coming; and I have showed up post-breakup with ice cream and pedicure supplies many times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;ve been conditioned to be &#8220;the mom&#8221; of my friend group my whole life.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I believe this aspect of my personality came from two parts of my life that were established early: Being the eldest of three children I always an established sense of responsibility and care. 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I am the one who reminds us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/02\/why-my-friends-wish-me-happy-mothers-day-but-im-not-yet-a-mom\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[788,2615,2611],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-lifestyle","tag-mom-friend","tag-mother-s-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}