{"id":3698,"date":"2011-10-11T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T06:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2011-10-12T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T07:04:06","slug":"how-do-you-choose-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"How do you choose your friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you meet someone, you find one of the following:<\/p>\n<ol>Similar hobby or interest (e.g. food truck hunting, cycling, same music band)<\/ol>\n<ol>Mutual friend which often leads to <i>let&#8217;s all make a reason to hang out<\/i> or <i>see you at the next event of the mutual friend<\/i><\/ol>\n<ol>An event that both of you attended<\/ol>\n<ol>Some strange instant connection that indescribable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom any gender, not necessarily romantic in any way; but it&#8217;s never awkward, it feels right<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last one that is rare.  Sure the first few are about similarities, but it&#8217;s the last one that&#8230;it&#8217;s instant that it&#8217;s overlap in so many ways.  It&#8217;s so mutual.  And afterwards, you are in a trance\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<i>we are soulmates<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you meet someone, you find one of the following: Similar hobby or interest (e.g. food truck hunting, cycling, same music band) Mutual friend which often leads to let&#8217;s all make a reason to hang out or see you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3698\">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-3698","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\/3698","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=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}