{"id":51236,"date":"2015-08-16T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_new_speed_dating_event_helps_seniors_find_companions_maybe_even\/"},"modified":"2015-08-16T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:10:17","slug":"local_paper_new_speed_dating_event_helps_seniors_find_companions_maybe_even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51236","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) New speed dating event helps seniors find companions, maybe even romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Southwell is looking for a little more fun in life. She wants romance, a dancing partner and someone to talk to. However, that hasn\u2019t been easy to find because Southwell, who lives on James Island, is 80 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges she faces dating at an older age, finding that special someone may be getting a little bit easier for men and women like her. Southwell and about two dozen other women and men over the age of 70 in the Charleston area recently took part in a Speed Dating event at the Lowcountry Senior Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150810\/PC1204\/150819967\/1015\/looking-for-a-match\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Southwell is looking for a little more fun in life. She wants romance, a dancing partner and someone to talk to. However, that hasn\u2019t been easy to find because Southwell, who lives on James Island, is 80 years old.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51236\">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":[39,103,175,168,125,177,129,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-men","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236","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=51236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}