{"id":2481,"date":"2018-05-05T08:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2018-05-07T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:57:08","slug":"how-do-i-make-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/05\/how-do-i-make-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I make friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2474\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05052018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2474\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05052018-3-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"How do I make friends?\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How do I make friends?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Make a list of things you enjoy doing. Make a list of people you&#8217;re acquainted with and\/or organizations at BC (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BCStudentGroups\">bit.ly\/BCStudentGroups<\/a>) or elsewhere (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/meetup.com\">meetup.com<\/a>) that do those things. Join organizations and do those things with them. Introduce yourself to people you&#8217;re doing them with. Repeat. When a conversation gets beyond names and weather, that&#8217;s a potential friend. Arrange to do something else with them that you both enjoy. Repeat. Celebrate their successes &amp; birthdays, commiserate with their sorrows. Repeat. Suddenly, you realize you&#8217;ve been friends for decades. Repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a list of things you enjoy doing. Make a list of people you&#8217;re acquainted with and\/or organizations at BC (bit.ly\/BCStudentGroups) or elsewhere (such as meetup.com) that do those things. Join organizations and do those things with them. Introduce yourself to people you&#8217;re doing them with. Repeat. When a conversation gets beyond names and weather, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/05\/how-do-i-make-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I make friends?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}