{"id":6317,"date":"2019-02-14T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:24:09","slug":"how-should-i-tell-my-clingy-and-mean-friend-to-leave-me-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/14\/how-should-i-tell-my-clingy-and-mean-friend-to-leave-me-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"How should I tell my clingy and mean friend to leave me alone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021419-3.jpg\" alt=\"How should I tell my clingy and mean friend to leave me alone?\" class=\"wp-image-6312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021419-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aw021419-3-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>How should I tell my clingy and mean friend to leave me alone?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many friendships morph or fizzle.  But in our world of screens (social media\/texting) this stuff can be tough.  You&#8217;re probably familiar with the avoidance dance.  How about the honest and direct (in person!), &#8220;I don&#8217;t like how you&#8217;ve been treating me.&#8221;  Really hard.  But you may learn more about that &#8220;friend&#8221;  and yourself after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many friendships morph or fizzle. But in our world of screens (social media\/texting) this stuff can be tough. You&#8217;re probably familiar with the avoidance dance. How about the honest and direct (in person!), &#8220;I don&#8217;t like how you&#8217;ve been treating me.&#8221; Really hard. But you may learn more about that &#8220;friend&#8221; and yourself after that.<\/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-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","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=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}