{"id":2048,"date":"2018-04-05T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-04-05T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T07:02:29","slug":"adult-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2018\/04\/adult-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had several conversations recently with different friends and family about how difficult it can be\u00a0to both maintain and make new friendships as &#8220;adults.&#8221; I&#8217;m talking about maintaining friendships from childhood\/college or making new friends in the post college time. People get married, some have kids. Between work and other family obligations, people get busy.<\/p>\n<p>Someone did tweet into my Twitter timeline recently a pretty great piece of advice on one way to help stay connected to your friends in the face of all the everyday busyness of adult life:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adult friendships are hard. Everyone is busy and life happens. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve learned you gotta text people when you\u2019re thinking of them. A simple \u201cthinking of you, hope all is well\u201d really goes a long way.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rob Lowe (@GetDown_LOWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GetDown_LOWE\/status\/980933898229121025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>I have more to say about this subject, however my thoughts are kinda all over the place at the moment. I&#8217;m going to need some more time to make them a little more coherent (I&#8217;ve written and deleted 3 or 4 different paragraphs).<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, anyone who happens to make it this far, I hope all is well with you. If we haven&#8217;t talked\/texted\/tweeted recently, I&#8217;d love to touch base and hear what is going on in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had several conversations recently with different friends and family about how difficult it can be\u00a0to both maintain and make new friendships as &#8220;adults.&#8221; I&#8217;m talking about maintaining friendships from childhood\/college or making new friends in the post college time. People get married, some have kids. Between work and other family obligations, people get busy. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2018\/04\/adult-friendships\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[114,102,532],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-or-something-like-it","tag-friends","tag-friendship","tag-life-or-something-like-it","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}