{"id":3585,"date":"2011-08-10T23:12:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2011-08-10T23:12:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:12:43","slug":"i-want-to-see-you-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"I want to see you again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that there&#8217;s thing called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Seattle-1\/Is-the-Seattle-Freeze-a-real-thing-that-people-have-experienced-Is-it-particularly-hard-to-make-new-friends-in-Seattle-as-opposed-to-other-cities?\">Seattle freeze<\/a>.  Whether it&#8217;s true or not, I had always wondered the same about San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>People often attribute to the difficulty in making new friends to the difficulty for meeting people outside work.  That there&#8217;s no such social setting like school and the like.  And yet.<\/p>\n<p>When I first moved to San Francisco in 2006, I met people quite easily.  Yet I have noticed that it&#8217;s incredibly hard to make friends with someone one-on-one.  It&#8217;s a group setting and others <i>must<\/i> be invited.  If they weren&#8217;t, it appeared pushy or &#8220;something weird was happening&#8221;.  Everyone assumes that everyone else has something better to do.  Especially with what Facebook, Twitter, G+&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have always hated the &#8220;let&#8217;s have lunch sometime&#8221;.  At first, I would agree happily and then it wouldn&#8217;t happen.  In the end, I determined that I wasn&#8217;t interested either&#8230;that I should have read between the lines and that we were being nice.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to get lunch sometime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that there&#8217;s thing called the Seattle freeze. Whether it&#8217;s true or not, I had always wondered the same about San Francisco. People often attribute to the difficulty in making new friends to the difficulty for meeting people outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}