{"id":2853,"date":"2017-05-20T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2017-05-20T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T19:47:00","slug":"for-longevity-men-need-to-cultivate-deep-friendships-on-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/for-longevity-men-need-to-cultivate-deep-friendships-on-being\/","title":{"rendered":"For Longevity, Men Need to Cultivate Deep Friendships | On Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/blog\/courtney-martin-men-for-longevity-cultivate-deep-friendships\/\">For Longevity, Men Need to Cultivate Deep Friendships | On Being<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen, on average, die five years younger than women, and researchers believe that a big part of that gap is about social isolation. In other words, men are dying, to some extent, because they undervalue friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A lack of intimate friendships doesn\u2019t just lead to loneliness; it can negatively impact your health, too. Courtney E. Martin looks at the practical effects of male isolation, and wishes for a world in which men can gather with joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: For Longevity, Men Need to Cultivate Deep Friendships | On Being \u201cMen, on average, die five years younger than women, and researchers believe that&#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\/2853"}],"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=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}