{"id":968,"date":"2018-02-20T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=968"},"modified":"2018-02-20T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:32:12","slug":"why-venture-into-a-romantic-relationship-if-risks-include-losing-the-existing-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/20\/why-venture-into-a-romantic-relationship-if-risks-include-losing-the-existing-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Why venture into a romantic relationship if risks include losing the existing friendship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-960\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AW02202018-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-960\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AW02202018-8-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"Why venture into a romantic relationship if risks include losing the existing friendship?\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why venture into a romantic relationship if risks include losing the existing friendship?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ah. But what if your friend could become your world? Making the decision to risk a friendship for something more is tough. But this is a classic example of &#8220;nothing ventured, nothing gained&#8221;. There&#8217;s no guarantee that you would lose the friendship if the relationship goes poorly. And there&#8217;s no guarantee the friendship would survive whether there&#8217;s a relationship or not. We don&#8217;t know what the future holds, but it would be a shame to look back and wonder what could have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. But what if your friend could become your world? Making the decision to risk a friendship for something more is tough. But this is a classic example of &#8220;nothing ventured, nothing gained&#8221;. There&#8217;s no guarantee that you would lose the friendship if the relationship goes poorly. And there&#8217;s no guarantee the friendship would survive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/20\/why-venture-into-a-romantic-relationship-if-risks-include-losing-the-existing-friendship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why venture into a romantic relationship if risks include losing the existing friendship?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[137,138],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","tag-friend","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}