{"id":1485,"date":"2012-07-18T03:43:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2012-07-18T03:43:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T07:43:50","slug":"why-is-it-hard-to-make-friends-over-30-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/18\/why-is-it-hard-to-make-friends-over-30-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of a Certain Age- NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"articleHeadline\">Friends of a Certain Age<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"articleSubHeadline\">Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Here is a snippet of a 3 page article in the NYT on making friends over 30. Those 3 conditions, especially the first 2 are things I miss. Local friends, I call them. They fill a very particular need in this life where I have close friends, BFFs even, all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">As external conditions change, it becomes tougher to meet the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: <strong>proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other<\/strong>, said Rebecca G. Adams, a professor of sociology and gerontology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This is why so many people meet their lifelong friends in college, she added.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Read the full article here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/15\/fashion\/the-challenge-of-making-friends-as-an-adult.html?src=me&amp;ref=general\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of a Certain Age Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? Here is a snippet of a 3 page article in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}