{"id":3140,"date":"2013-05-03T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T16:14:09","slug":"why-its-so-hard-to-make-friends-after-college-and-what-you-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Why it&#8217;s so hard to make friends after college and what you can do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/relaxing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3141\" alt=\"Image by lusi\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/relaxing-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/relaxing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/relaxing-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1206728\">lusi<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lifehacker.com today has an article that you may find interesting. We tend to forge strong friendships during childhood, adolescence and into college. But for a lot of people, making close friends after college can be challenging. After discussing potential causes, they make recommendations such as &#8220;use daily deals, such as Groupon or LivingSocial, to take classes or other activities&#8221; and &#8220;join a sports league (bonus points: get regular exercise!)&#8221;. Click below for the full article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/why-its-so-hard-to-make-friends-after-college-and-wha-488975744\" target=\"_blank\">Why it&#8217;s so hard to make friends after college and what you can do about it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifehacker.com today has an article that you may find interesting. We tend to forge strong friendships during childhood, adolescence and into college. But for a lot of people, making close friends after college can be challenging. After discussing potential causes, they make recommendations such as &#8220;use daily deals, such as Groupon or LivingSocial, to take classes or other activities&#8221; and<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3140\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,166],"tags":[65,48,90],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reblogged","tag-connection","tag-relationship","tag-relationships-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/relaxing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}