{"id":14541,"date":"2020-08-06T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14541"},"modified":"2020-08-06T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:24:31","slug":"whats-the-recipe-to-make-your-friend-happy-especially-when-he-is-a-persistent-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/08\/06\/whats-the-recipe-to-make-your-friend-happy-especially-when-he-is-a-persistent-one\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the recipe to make your friend happy? Especially when he is a persistent one."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Be (gently) honest with him and manage expectations. Let him know that (barring a true emergency) you need time for &#8211; whatever else you do &#8211; but also let him know when you are available and that you want to be there for him. But you can&#8217;t make him happy; that&#8217;s on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be (gently) honest with him and manage expectations. Let him know that (barring a true emergency) you need time for &#8211; whatever else you do &#8211; but also let him know when you are available and that you want to be there for him. But you can&#8217;t make him happy; that&#8217;s on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14542,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14541\/revisions\/14542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}