{"id":23408,"date":"2010-12-13T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T06:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-religious_people_happier_with_friends_in_pews\/"},"modified":"2010-12-13T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T06:54:10","slug":"rns-religious_people_happier_with_friends_in_pews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23408","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Religious people happier with friends in pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close friendships among congregants, rather than theology seem to be the key to happiness among religious people, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>One-third of Americans who attend religious services weekly and have three to five close friends in the congregation said they are \u201cextremely satisfied\u201d\u009d with their lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblicalrecorder.org\/post\/2010\/12\/10\/Religious-people-happier-with-friends-in-pews.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close friendships among congregants, rather than theology seem to be the key to happiness among religious people, according to a new study. One-third of Americans who attend religious services weekly and have three to five close friends in the congregation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23408\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}